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In recent years, the U.S. and Turkey have also discussed the possibility of delivering the S-400 to American military personnel who could disable the system’s ability to threaten U.S. aircraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Talent agencies, union officials and others in Hollywood also criticized the new AI feature, putting pressure on Meta to disable it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Regardless of whether it does end up being banned for under-16s, Roblox will still need to abide by requirements for all platforms to disable features that let strangers communicate with children, announced alongside the ban.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
The company disclosed late Friday that it had to “abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5,” two of its new models, due to export-control restrictions issued by the U.S. government.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 2026
I needed to disable the Hephaestus chariot and get it out of the way, but I had to protect Annabeth, too.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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Some regularly put their cars in sport mode, which in some models disables the engine from shutting off when the car is idle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
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
"Lack of support, lack of accessibility, that is what disables you."
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
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
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Paul Oakes, the equality development manager with the Equality Commission in Northern Ireland, said service providers had to make any adjustments which were regarded as reasonable adjustments so that disabled people could use their service.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Social-insurance programs guarantee lifelong income for all Americans, particularly low-wage workers; provide protection for disabled workers and their surviving family; and spread potentially catastrophic healthcare risk across the population.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The move effectively disabled the phone's AI agent, so ByteDance turned off the powerful tool in certain circumstances, including when payments were involved.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
"The thing is, disabled people know their bodies incredibly well," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
My dad pulled me aside as I filed past the Council, whose older or disabled members had lined up to see us off.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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Options for changing the platforms’ design could include disabling features such as default autoplay and infinite scrolling or creating screen time breaks for users, it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
"Our current plan is, with the help of parliament, get the Digital Fairness Act amended to include the issue of prohibiting publishers from deliberately disabling customer purchases," they said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
The researchers tested whether disabling DNA repair in this way could improve the effectiveness of existing therapies.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
Blessing then smashed into the wall of a nearby home, disabling his Tahoe, police said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Terryl remembers that Danny, to make sure church wasn’t an option, would sometimes take the distributor cap off of Kathie’s long, chocolate brown Cadillac, disabling the aging sedan.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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