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hobble

verb as in limp

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Riley hobbled down the aisle, hampered by the chronic nerve injury in her left leg that has forced her to announce her retirement a month shy of her 38th birthday.

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Occasionally hobbling between the wickets, he sprinkled eight boundaries, including a six over the grandstand, through a professional innings that took the game away from Ireland before he was bowled by Ben White for 55.

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Having positioned himself at the back of the race from the start, he eventually managed to hobble over the line and finished last.

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The changes also seem to have hobbled the bureau’s efforts to find Kirk’s assassin.

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After the pandemic, the studio model that once allowed new tentpole films to be released in theaters virtually every week of the year was hobbled.

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