Thesaurus results for CRUTCH

crutch

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as in prop

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Recent Examples of crutch The 2026 Pulse of Work report—a survey of 2,500 respondents of both knowledge workers and IT managers on AI deployment—found that Gen Z workers were especially likely to treat the tech as a crutch, and 62% admitted to it. —

Jake Angelo, Fortune, 19 May 2026 Mary Todd Lincoln, amid her grief, grabbed the crutch of Spiritualism. —

Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 From ordering groceries to using AI to write for us, the digital world has become a facilitator but also a crutch. —

Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 20 Apr. 2026 There’s a case to be made for smart systems acting as a safety net rather than a crutch. —

New Atlas, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for crutch

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Without further ado, let’s dive into three player props worth considering for Week 5 action!

— Juan Carlos Blanco, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
The indictment alleged Beasley purposefully under- and over-performed statistically in order to influence prop bets made by Plascencia and other co-defendants on Beasley’s individual statistics.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 1 July 2026

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The handmaids’ crimson robes evolved into protest iconography around the world because the story captured fears about authoritarianism and gender more viscerally than overt political messaging ever could.

— Marc Adelman, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
Brush in hand, she is dwarfed by huge canvases within the paintings on which bare-breasted figures are in the process of emerging—a waiflike handmaiden hard at work at the feet of her American Helens of Troy.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 23 May 2026