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verb

past tense of disable

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Recent Examples of disabled
Adjective
The state program provides monthly cash benefits to elderly, blind and disabled noncitizens who are ineligible for Social Security benefits because of their immigration status. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025 These benefit cast and crew with visual impairments, who are neurodivergent or learning disabled. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
Verb
According to one person who was in the courtroom on Tuesday, the hearing lasted just 30 minutes before Bradley County Chancery Court Chancellor Jerry Bryant determined Forrest to be disabled under state law, and decided on Aubrey as his conservator. Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025 This headline feature is disabled by default but can be activated via the Roborock app. Prakhar Khanna, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disabled
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disabled
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • Queen’s legendary guitarist Brian May made an unexpected return to the music festival stage at Coachella 2025, just seven months after a minor stroke temporarily paralyzed his left arm.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • However, so much has happened since 2020 — the year that a pandemic paralyzed the country — that Idahoans could be forgiven if their memories of the event are a little hazy.
    Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Early signs of Parkinson’s include depression, body aches, daytime sleepiness, and impaired smell.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 13 May 2025
  • Expanding Gross Reservoir is critical to add water storage capabilities on the north end of the utility’s water supply system and to create more of a safeguard in case the much larger south end of the system becomes impaired, according to Denver Water.
    Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Hours before that performance, as Ivy has a diva moment and Karen is incapacitated in a reformatting of the series’ poisoning plot line, Bombshell’s assistant director, Chloe (Bella Coppola), suddenly has to step up to play Marilyn, winning the love of the internet.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Successful organizing includes documenting evidence of government abuses, sharing information broadly, and building administrative systems rather than relying on a few leaders who may be assassinated or otherwise incapacitated.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Many residents reacted angrily when L.A. County officials called for volunteers in March to help with rebuilding the park, saying that the decision was tone deaf in the face of fire survivors’ trauma and unsafe given the toxicity of the debris.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2025
  • Fine arts Artist of the Year Helen Zhang discussed how the imagery in her paintings explores themes of resilience and vulnerability, inspired in part by her experience of being deaf in one ear.
    Staff report, Oc Register, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Universities aren’t blind to the pressures students are under, and many have made student wellness a priority.
    Cornelia Powers, The Atlantic, 18 May 2025
  • Your editorial and the Democrats are completely blind as to the facts by your radical liberal ideology.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • Everyone onboard the Cessna 310 aircraft were killed in the fiery crash in Boca Raton, while a fourth person on the ground — who was driving at the time — was left injured, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Mayor Adams is planning to travel to the Dominican Republic early next week to mourn the tragic Santo Domingo nightclub roof collapse that killed 221 people and left over 150 injured.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2025

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“Disabled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disabled. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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