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as in paralyzed
to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move
the malfunctioning of a single component can incapacitate the engine
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as in crippled
to cause severe or permanent injury to
the stroke left her completely incapacitated
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Recent Examples of incapacitated
Jordan Moreau, Variety, 15 July 2024
There are provisions to remove an incapacitated nominee.
—W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 July 2024
Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
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In his incapacitated state, does Aegon know Aemond deliberately attacked and burned him?
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On September 17, the detonation of thousands of pagers incapacitated hundreds of senior members of the Shiite terrorist organization.
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Supplemental Security Income payments are limited to low-income Americans — older adults, or adults or children who are disabled or blind.Louis Jacobson, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Not all disabled people view politics through a disability lens.Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Those who are paralyzed by grief often do not have the wherewithal to articulate their agony, so my reporting frequently consists of telling stories on behalf of people who want them to be told.Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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Along the way, he’s been shot, stabbed, paralyzed, ejected from a submarine, trapped in a gas chamber, stalked by a serial killer, attacked by Satan, and has effortlessly come back to life after being dead — all while his signature eyebrow arch reacted to the chaos accordingly.Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
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Predictions for holiday spending are beginning to trickle out, but there are a lot of question marks in the air, including a massive port workers’ strike that began Tuesday and has crippled all shipping container cargo on the East Coast.Megan Poinski, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Saddam's Playbook All these sites were targeted by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war and severely crippled the Iranian economy.Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Authorities are investigating a shooting that left two people injured early Saturday morning in Union City.Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
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Kenney, who came to The Farm from Fargo, North Dakota but spent his first three years either injured or backing up current Los Angeles Rams kicker Joshua Karty, then nailed a career-best kick on Senior Day, sending the players and a small group of students storming onto the field.Harold Gutmann, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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The investigation reveals a dismal picture of a company with a sales culture that depends on squeezing infirm and elderly patients and the government for every penny.Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2024
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The team’s droll, imperturbable manager, Dave Roberts, spent much of his summer issuing medical briefings on infirm pitchers.Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Low wages, high youth unemployment and a feeble social safety net mean China’s household spending is less than 40% of annual economic output, some 20 percentage points below the global average.Reuters, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
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The economy has been weighed down by the weakness of its industrial sector amid Russia’s shutdown in natural gas supplies after the invasion of Ukraine, as well as feeble Chinese demand and the car industry’s difficulties in pivoting to electric vehicles.Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 8 Oct. 2024
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The lawsuit alleged that the petitions were tainted by misconduct and thus invalid.A.J. Herrington, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Some companies fighting the lawsuits note that the $1,000 penalty that the law guarantees may lead to companies acting out of fear and removing more data than needed, or honoring requests that are actually invalid.Paresh Dave, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2024
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The new medium setting is the Goldilocks of temperatures—not too hot, not too weak, just voluminous blowout perfection in under 15 minutes.Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024
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The transition into a relatively weak Santa Ana wind event is driving the shift in weather.Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Incapacitated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incapacitated. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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