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One of the lawsuits that Lu filed in Mauritius prompted a court there to freeze Afrinic’s bank accounts in July 2021, effectively paralyzing the organization and eventually sending it into receivership.

When she got pregnant in 2021, her heart was already weakened by Graves’ disease and she was still recovering from a rare neurological illness that had left her partially paralyzed.

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The move spares residents from a hike in electricity prices and restores certainty to an energy sector long paralyzed by regulatory whiplash.

One of the rounds severed Carrillo’s spine, leaving him permanently paralyzed.

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A blackout that paralyzed Spain and Portugal in April showed how a relatively small glitch on the grid, such as an outage at a few power plants, can cascade.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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