disable
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Users should have the right to disable features like autoplay and notifications not related to their activity, one of the documents said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
In June the Commerce Department imposed worldwide export restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, which in effect forced the company to disable them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
It uses thiostrepton, a naturally occurring antibiotic, to disable PRX3.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Meta said it recently updated the glasses to disable the camera if the light was tampered with.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
‘I have to disable the onagers,’ Nico said.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
The virus that sparked a global pandemic still regularly infects, disables and kills hundreds of people per week.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 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
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
Technology is a shape or a form that enables certain things and disables others, and there’s room to navigate, but there are also constraints.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025
Hemophilia is caused by a single mutation that disables a protein in the clotting of blood.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The U.S. has disabled five ships during the blockade, Central Command says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
The Social Security Disability Insurance program provides cash benefits to disabled workers and their eligible dependents.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
Addressing residents, staff and volunteers in Spanish, Leo said disabled people were "not a burden on society" but "a blessing."
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
When the researchers disabled the gene responsible for claudin-4, BFT could no longer bind to the colon cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Dotted along the way were disabled military vehicles.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Second strokes are more likely to be disabling, said Johnson’s neurologist, Dr. Andrew Russman, the medical director of the Comprehensive Stroke Center at the Cleveland Clinic, who wants to put Johnson on the drug indefinitely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Sheila became more frail, was diagnosed with dementia and also had a series of physical health problems, including a "chronic" and "disabling" prolapse.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
But would disabling Mitch have a similar effect in human cells?
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Zhang uses a Little Genius smartwatch to check her daughter’s location and call her, while disabling games and other apps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
“You’re not the first person in the world to have to deal with a disabling accident!”
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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