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as in to cripple
to cause severe or permanent injury to
a promising athlete who was severely disabled in a plane crash
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as in to paralyze
to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move
disabled the controls for unauthorized users
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Recent Examples of disable
If users opt to record at the device’s maximum 192kHz sample rate, the number of available channels drops to 8 inputs and 4 outputs, plus Line Out EQ processing is disabled at resolutions of 96kHz and above.
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Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
The statement also said that the Cellbroadcast tool, which is used to send severe and extreme alerts, is managed by Anatel (National Telecommunications Agency) and has been temporarily disabled.
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Mariana Catacci,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026
The order marked the government’s most significant intervention in the AI industry, prompting Anthropic to immediately disable access to both models.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
19 June 2026
Earlier this month, the Congressional Black Caucus also urged the Senate to suspend action on the bill in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that effectively disabled a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
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Joey Cappelletti,
Chicago Tribune,
18 June 2026
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Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
The statement also said that the Cellbroadcast tool, which is used to send severe and extreme alerts, is managed by Anatel (National Telecommunications Agency) and has been temporarily disabled.
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Mariana Catacci,
CNN Money,
20 June 2026
The order marked the government’s most significant intervention in the AI industry, prompting Anthropic to immediately disable access to both models.
—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
19 June 2026
Earlier this month, the Congressional Black Caucus also urged the Senate to suspend action on the bill in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that effectively disabled a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
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Joey Cappelletti,
Chicago Tribune,
18 June 2026
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Attacking and denying a nation’s assets in space can cripple the effective use of weapons on the ground.
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The move on Monday marks the most sweeping rollback of American oil sanctions against Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, reversing years of pressure designed to cripple Iran's economy, and is expected to deliver billions in oil revenue for the Iranian regime.
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Barricades erected on key roads have effectively isolated the city of La Paz, triggering fuel and food shortages, paralyzing transportation and preventing patients from reaching hospitals — causing at least seven deaths for lack of medical attention, the government says.
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Barricades erected on key roads have essentially isolated the city of La Paz, Bolivia’s seat of government, triggering fuel and food shortages, paralyzing transportation and preventing patients from reaching hospitals.
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Airbus UpNext's DragonFly project is developing AI that manages complex emergencies autonomously when the crew is incapacitated.
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According to the law enforcement investigation, Garcia activated her Taser seven times in a row in about a minute, with the State Patrol concluding that three to four of those activations occurred after Tomlinson was already incapacitated by the initial Taser deployments.
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Kirk had disappeared from their feeds, and Erika Kirk had gone viral for the wrong reasons—taking the stage at her husband’s memorial service amid pyrotechnics and attempting her own campus tour, undermining her image as a Christian trad wife whose priorities were her family and her home.
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Over his 18-year tenure at the Fed, Greenspan embodied the omnipotent technocrat — a legacy critics say was fatally undermined by his failure to spot the 2008 housing bubble.
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An underage girl was injured and treated at a hospital.
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Sixty-six people were injured in the incident.
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Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s consumer spending slowdown persisted in June, with growth during one of the country’s largest online shopping festivals weakening sharply from a year earlier.
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All three of those protagonists have been weakened in their roles by what has gone on.
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