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cripple

verb as in hinder action, progress

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With communications crippled, the true scale of the disaster remains unknown.

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It “will cause widespread harm by making massive reductions in federal funding and potentially cripple the health care safety net,” Baass said.

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Bessent also said U.S. soybean farmers, who have been crippled by China’s boycott of their products, “are going to be extremely happy with this deal.”

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Bessent also said U.S. soybean farmers, who have been crippled by China’s boycott of their products, “are going to be extremely happy with this deal.”

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In multiple rounds of blacklisting, the Biden administration crippled the logistics, shipping and financing ecosystem around the natural-gas facility known as Arctic LNG 2, publicly aiming to leave it “dead in the water.”

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