crippling
Example Sentences
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But decades of over-use, coupled with years of drought, have put crippling strain on a watercourse whose management has always been based on an over-allocation of available resources.
From Barron's ● 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
Those reforms 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
For Sarah Bodger the cost of travelling to work is "crippling".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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
