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For four decades, cancer researchers fought to disable a stubborn mutation that made pancreatic cancer a death sentence—to little avail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

During the same session, Mary Kish, head of community at Twitch, took viewers through a tutorial on how to disable generative AI training through a user's channel settings.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

But the feature could be turned off, and a survey by consultants Censuswide found 85 percent of 16 to 18-year-olds said they would disable it.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Anthropic’s Fable model was brought under export control by the government, forcing the company to disable access to all its users, before it was re-released with extra safeguards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

She slashed the onager’s spring cord to disable the weapon, then kept moving.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

A "dark" vessel -- usually a tanker or cargo carrier -- deliberately disables or manipulates transponders in a bid to go undetected by public tracking systems like Kpler's MarineTraffic.

From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026

But if a student disables Opal to use a banned app, school officials are notified on an office dashboard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025

If the lane striping isn’t perfect, though, the lane-keeping assist sometimes disables itself, so I don’t rely on it completely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

Though infections are at a relative low these days, we're still dealing with COVID-19, which kills hundreds of Americans per week and disables countless others.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025

Several of the drones hover too close to the gates—when they try to cross over, they hit an invisible shield that disables them, sending them clattering to the ground.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

The campus was donated to the U.S. government in the late 19th century as a permanent home for disabled soldiers of foreign wars and at times housed up to 4,000 veterans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

“I think Judy was asking for the world to see disabled people as human beings who were worthy of rights and being looked at and being included.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

More recently, in October of last year, New Jersey’s then-attorney general, Matthew Platkin, sued Amazon in state court over its treatment of pregnant and disabled workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Long Island mother-of-two Linda Mancuso's disabled son Michael, 23, lost a Haitian aide his mother considers a "lifeline"

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

That bit went well—within a minute we had thoroughly disabled it.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

The effort underscores the challenge of fully disabling the country’s missile program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

“When people have access to medical care through insurance, they tend to undertake activities that can help longevity, like better preventive care, better management of chronic and disabling conditions,” Cohen said.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

"You've got inequalities in urban infrastructure, housing, structural conditions around things like social networks and care. If you put all of those together and then you throw heat in, that's what's disabling," Kirkcaldy said.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Instagram, which is owned by Meta, has been disabling accounts and taking down some of these pickup or prank videos for violating the platform’s rules against harassment and bullying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

In Kearney, Nebraska, citizens were instructed on disabling incendiary bombs with garden hoses.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand