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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.
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Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
Mary Todd Lincoln, amid her grief, grabbed the crutch of Spiritualism.
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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.
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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.
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New Atlas,
10 Apr. 2026
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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crutch
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Now the girls, with their useless prop hats drooping sadly over their foreheads, are forced to watch strangers in even cuter outfits than theirs (according to Jen) doing body rolls all over the boys the main-villa girls have only just managed to wrangle into something like a relationship.
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Operating Platform Sportsbooks strictly cover athletic events, game stats, and player props.
Noun
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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.
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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.
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“Crutch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crutch. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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