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as in disabled
affected with paralysis
special ramps for paralyzed people in wheelchairs
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as in helpless
unable to act or achieve one's purpose
a seemingly paralyzed mayor sat by as the city's crime rate soared
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as in crippled
to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move
a blizzard paralyzed the city for two days
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as in frightened
to deprive of courage or confidence
the school board is paralyzed by the threat of lawsuits for just about everything
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Recent Examples of paralyzed
Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 30 Dec. 2024
James’ novella concerns a self-fulfilling prophecy about a paralyzed existence ending tragically with a protagonist realizing he’s wasted his life away due to fear of the unknown.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024
Jake Offenhartz and Jennifer Peltz, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2024
What's New A case of mistaken identity during a home invasion in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, has left a 25-year-old man dead and his 61-year-old mother paralyzed.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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But Musk scored victories by launching and catching a SpaceX rocket and implanting the first Neuralink chip into a paralyzed patient’s brain.
—Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 30 Dec. 2024
James’ novella concerns a self-fulfilling prophecy about a paralyzed existence ending tragically with a protagonist realizing he’s wasted his life away due to fear of the unknown.
—Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024
Verb
Some related to international extremism, but the law was first used against a Bronx gang member after a hail of gunfire killed a 10-year-old girl and paralyzed a man outside a christening party in 2002.
—Jake Offenhartz and Jennifer Peltz, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2024
What's New A case of mistaken identity during a home invasion in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, has left a 25-year-old man dead and his 61-year-old mother paralyzed.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paralyzed
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Connecticut is set to pay nearly $5.9 million to the family of a disabled man who was wrongly imprisoned for more than two decades before he was freed in 2015 when his 1992 conviction in the murder and rape of an 88-year-old grandmother was overturned.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
26 Jan. 2025
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An Arizona grandmother has been charged with caging her mentally disabled teenage granddaughter and abusing her to death earlier this week.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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As the screaming continued, the terrified neighbor, 44, shooed her young sons away from the door and looked through the peephole into the hallway, watching as the assailant stabbed the helpless woman in the back of her neck with a knife at least 8 inches long.—
Ellen Moynihan,
New York Daily News,
1 Feb. 2025
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What can people do to spread more civility rather than feeling helpless?—
Stephen Humphries,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Jan. 2025
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His vengeance included turning Michigan State in for NCAA violations, leading to probation that crippled the program until the late 1970s.—
Joe Rexrode,
The Athletic,
31 Dec. 2024
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As the city litigated and revised the environmental impact report, two devastating storms in December 2023 and February 2024 — the same series that crippled San Diego’s Ocean Beach Pier — substantially damaged the wharf.—
Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Dec. 2024
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The polio vaccines prevented 29 million cases of paralytic polio between 1960 and 2021, compared with a counterfactual world with no vaccines, according to researchers’ estimates.—
Soph Warnes,
CNN,
2 Feb. 2025
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In 2022 public health officials were unable to trace the source of infection of a man who developed paralytic polio in a highly unvaccinated community in Rockland County in New York State.—
Tara Haelle,
Scientific American,
30 Jan. 2025
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Its economy and productivity are weak, debt is high and trade diversification is low, the analysts added, singling out the country’s already-declining softwood lumber industry as particularly at risk.—
Jenni Reid,
CNBC,
3 Feb. 2025
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When those cells outnumber the osteoblasts, though, there's an overall loss of bone tissue, resulting in weaker, more fragile bones.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
2 Feb. 2025
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In 2010, a UPS cargo flight was involved in a fatal accident when a cargo pallet containing tens of thousands of lithium batteries caused a fire in the hold, which eventually incapacitated the pilots and damaged the flight controls, causing the aircraft to crash in Dubai.—
Barry Collins,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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Workers incapacitated by pregnancy could get an additional two weeks.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
20 Dec. 2024
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The movie sees the revival of arch-villain Feathers McGraw, who terrified kids in 1993’s The Wrong Trousers.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
23 Dec. 2024
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My Hugo would chase it and bark at it, or he'd be terrified.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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Those at high-risk for listeria infection are newborns, those who are pregnant, have weakened immune systems, and those aged 65 or older.—
Mike Snider,
USA TODAY,
3 Jan. 2025
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But the militants, while greatly weakened, have repeatedly regrouped, often after Israeli forces withdraw from areas.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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“Paralyzed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paralyzed. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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