as in impaired
deprived of the power to perform one or more natural bodily activities
the disabled man was unable to climb the stairs without help
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as in crippled
to cause severe or permanent injury to
a promising athlete who was severely disabled in a plane crash
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as in paralyzed
to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move
disabled the controls for unauthorized users
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Recent Examples of disabled
Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 3 Feb. 2026
Wael faced a long battle with Advanced Pompe Disease, causing him to be severely disabled.
—Marwa Mouaki, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2026
Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 29 Jan. 2026
It can be disabled by toggling the switch off.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
More than 36% of participants are in families with disabled or elderly adults, and more than 45% are in working families.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 3 Feb. 2026
Wael faced a long battle with Advanced Pompe Disease, causing him to be severely disabled.
—Marwa Mouaki, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2026
Verb
But while these cannot be disabled electronically, their range is limited by the length of the cable.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 29 Jan. 2026
It can be disabled by toggling the switch off.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
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Adjective
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According to the release, 15 participating dogs have special needs, including Wynonna, a determined pup from Louisville with only three legs; and Eleanor, who is both deaf and vision-impaired.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
6 Feb. 2026
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According to the release, 15 participating dogs have special needs, including Wynonna, a determined pup with only three legs; and Eleanor, who is both deaf and vision-impaired.—
Chris Sims,
IndyStar,
4 Feb. 2026
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In 2021, a record-shattering outbreak of cold in Texas crippled the state’s electric grid, a meltdown blamed in large part on failures in its gas infrastructure.—
Kristi Swartz,
AJC.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Widespread power outages, dilapidated equipment, and a lack of spare parts from absent foreign firms crippled operations.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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For the cover of the February 2, 2026, issue, the artist Peter de Sève celebrates the brave souls who continue to work when the city is paralyzed by a snowstorm.—
Françoise Mouly,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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No matter that Goetz had severed Cabey’s spinal cord and permanently paralyzed him from the waist down.—
Heather Ann Thompson,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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Those with very poor credit scores (between 300 and 579) pay 273% more than those with exceptional credit scores (between 800 and 850), according to data from the insurance comparison site the Zebra.—
Liz Knueven,
CNBC,
4 Feb. 2026
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Historian Timothy Snyder has warned that democracies often die through the normalization of the exceptional—emergency as governance, loyalty as qualification, disinformation as a political tool.—
Alejandro Reyes,
Washington Post,
3 Feb. 2026
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Perhaps the principal investigator dies, or is incapacitated.—
David Seal,
STAT,
3 Feb. 2026
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Lynch's status will be reviewed in one year, unless he is found to be no longer incapacitated before that time.—
Katie Houlis,
CBS News,
31 Jan. 2026
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President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif extended condolences to the families of the victims in separate statements and asked that all possible medical assistance be provided for those wounded.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Feb. 2026
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Three people were killed and six more were wounded on Thursday after a car hit a bicyclist and crashed into a grocery store in Los Angeles, according to authorities.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Feb. 2026
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No one was reported injured by the Wednesday night blaze at the Lehigh Valley Hospital campus in Dickson City, which drew all available emergency medical services within a 50-mile radius, fire officials said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
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Law enforcement officers were injured, autonomous vehicles were set on fire and stores were looted.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Disabled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disabled. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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