paralysis

Even Amazon can recognize the importance of a piece of direct mail that makes holiday shopping less likely to cause choice paralysis.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Still, voters exhausted by street crime and economic paralysis say she represents the best path forward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

“The paralysis is what’s led to the lack of innovation, the failure to pursue policies that make sense for the greater good.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

Later, while the public was somewhat aware that President Franklin D Roosevelt lived with paralysis from polio, the White House downplayed his use of a wheelchair until his death in office in 1945.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

Certainly not because I was held back by the kind of moral paralysis that can mask as journalistic objectivity.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

ICBC, China's largest commercial lender by assets, was beginning to restore services as of Thursday afternoon, the newspaper said, citing people briefed on the ransomware attack, which paralyses computer systems unless a payment is made.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2023

Sometimes these compounds act as deterrents: nicotine, for example, is produced by some plants and paralyses insects, whereas caffeine suppresses their appetite.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 24, 2020

Nothing proved more vividly the maxim that technology renders civilisation fragile than the great traffic paralyses of the late seventies.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2019

There is little that paralyses the average person more than writing a letter of condolence.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2017

All of the neuralgias, many of the neuroses, all of the neuritises and a certain number of so-called palsies and paralyses, were treated successfully by this means.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)