cripple
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President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of trying to "cripple the economy and destroy people's lives" with intensifying strikes on civilian infrastructure, including the railways.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
A business fears proposals to charge Cardiff employers thousands of pounds for staff parking could "cripple" employers in the city.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Even high prices aren’t usually enough alone to cripple a bull.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
A steep drop in the first few years of retirement, while you’re pulling money out to live on, can permanently cripple a portfolio even after the market recovers.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
She opened her mouth to call the rower back—she couldn’t bear the loss; it would surely cripple her—and at that moment she realized she could hear nothing.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
But taxi driver Wayne Parsons, who travels 200 miles a day, said even the cheaper prices remained too high and "it cripples you".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Field sizes are so small that it cripples wagering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2025
The main action begins with a bang, as an unidentified bit of debris cripples the space station during an experiment that seeks “a new state of matter.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
This legacy often cripples their ability to transition into adulthood as a functioning member of society.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2023
Stanton said that she was pleased that she didn’t know Phillips’s opinion before she made her remarks because “the desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
“Their emails start out, ‘You’re my last hope of not being a crippled, miserable, dead person,’ ” he said.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
There are few signs the conflict is nearing an end, as the U.S. and Iran continue strikes and traffic in the Strait of Hormuz remains crippled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Mainland investors have been seeking to diversify their holdings in recent years as a debt crisis has crippled the Chinese property sector, long viewed as a safe bet to park assets, analysts told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
The Scots, crippled by a deadly combo of profligacy and self destruction, needed snookers.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
It had been so long since a farrier had trimmed War Chief’s hooves that he hobbled painfully around the yard like a crippled ballerina.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
Boucher said she had had to take out personal loans to cover the costs, which had been "crippling".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The chief executives of heavy industries have denounced the policies, citing crippling energy and carbon costs as some of the reasons they have shut down factories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Fabares spent her final years taking care of her mother and advocating for more funding for research into the crippling disease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Reforms under Zhu sparked a boom in real estate and construction, which would soar to become a quarter of China's economy before a crippling debt crisis struck in 2020.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
The difficulties of execution were not insuperable; but I feared that there should be no vigor in my rendering when my senses were clogged with terror at crowds and a crippling imagination of imminent failure.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
