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disable

[dis-ey-buhl] / dɪsˈeɪ bəl /




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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

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

Anthropic was temporarily forced to disable access to its latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, last month after the U.S. government flagged them as a security threat.

From MarketWatch Jul. 16, 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

He could disable the lockdown system himself—when he found it.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

The virus that sparked a global pandemic still regularly infects, disables and kills hundreds of people per week.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

It disables specific growth enzymes in grass weeds, while the same enzymes in crops like soybeans remain unaffected.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 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

This decision disables the feature entirely for news and entertainment apps.

From BBC Jan. 16, 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

Medicaid cannot recover certain assets from a deceased beneficiary’s estate if the beneficiary is survived by a child under 21, or a blind or disabled child of any age.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

If you remarried after age 60 — or after the age 50 if you are disabled — as long as you were married for 10 years, you could claim survivor benefits.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

But it would impact disabled people more broadly too.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East, had redirected 55 commercial ships, disabled two and boarded two to enforce the blockade.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

And we have never talked about finding out that Papa had anonymously donated to the children’s hospitals and motherless babies’ homes and disabled veterans from the civil war.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

Meet the car owners disabling alarms and reconfiguring dashboards in search of low-tech bliss.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Changes could include "disabling key addictive features such as 'autoplay' and 'infinite scroll' by default, implementing effective 'screen time breaks', and adapting its recommender system to make it less engagement-oriented", it added.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

"The problem is the industry has a very poor reputation of disabling games once they end support, so the trust from customers for many large publishers just isn't there," he said.

From BBC Jun. 26, 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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