crippling
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This confluence of factors coupled with rising wait times and skyrocketing costs of compute are crippling a generation of newcomers trying to compete with Google, Anthropic and OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Their crippling codependence is alienating, as if there really were only one of them.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
The scoping study said assembly members had given examples of constituents "who have experienced significant unexplained increases in service charges that were crippling in their effect".
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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
Once set in motion, the plan could not be stopped without putting Germany at a crippling disadvantage.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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