hamstrung 1 of 2

hamstrung

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verb

past tense of hamstring

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hamstrung
Adjective
  • However, the equipment has been unsuccessful in detecting the drones.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Stabilize leadership and prepare to scale down, S&P warns After CTU and CPS asking for more state funds earlier this year proved unsuccessful, new revenue from Springfield is unlikely, the S&P noted.
    Sarah Macaraeg, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Despite the prime minister’s assurances, some state workers failed to return to their jobs and a U.N. official said the government remains paralyzed.
    Sarah el Deeb, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
  • There was the woman who came to every meeting combative and quick-tempered (fight), the one who broke down in tears at every one-on-one and eventually took extended leave (flight), and the one who seemed paralyzed by the sheer volume of work (freeze).
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Its main proxy, Hezbollah, was crippled by a pager attack on its hierarchy, and then by weeks of vicious airstrikes.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Ongoing attacks have crippled Gaza's water and sanitation systems, depriving children of safe water and endangering their health.
    Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Create a Department of Government Efficiency Fund Regulatory bloat is not only costly for businesses but also for taxpayers who foot the bill for wasteful and inefficient agencies.
    James Broughel, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • These reactions show generalized anger over the lack of control people have over their economic lives, exemplified specifically on how health care is provided and paid for in our nation and how that unjust and inefficient system has been allowed, if not openly fostered, by government policy.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Elizabeth Taylor felt helpless learning a close friend's fate along with the world.
    Angela Andaloro, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Zimbardo spent the rest of his career promoting his theory that humans are helpless against the evil that lies in wait within us to be triggered by circumstance.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Ironically enough, in passing over Alabama the committee inadvertently undermined the spending power of one of college football’s most storied programs.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Had the committee excluded the Mustangs following their loss to Clemson in the ACC championship — on a walk-off field goal, no less — the decision would have undermined the credibility of conference title games.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • President Biden has faced scrutiny for his decision as several Democrats on Capitol Hill have condemned the move as counterproductive to their party’s efforts toward rebuilding public trust in American institutions derided by President-elect Trump.
    Juliann Ventura, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
  • If the physical qubits are too failure-prone, error correction is counterproductive — adding more physical qubits will make the logical qubits worse, not better.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Capasa noted that a negative third quarter impacted by weak internal demand, the slowdown of purchases from Chinese customers and overall geopolitical instability kept worsening the cautious scenario already registered in the first half of the year.
    Sandra Salibian, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Scene-to-scene continuity is typically weak and telling.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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