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as in crippling
to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move
a blizzard paralyzed the city for two days
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as in frightening
to deprive of courage or confidence
the school board is paralyzed by the threat of lawsuits for just about everything
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Recent Examples of paralyzing
But soon, Salinas found herself under a monthslong investigation, trying to fight off paralyzing depression while processing her grief and caring for her other children.
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Shoshana Walter, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
Yoon had tried to justify his decree with accusations that lawmakers were paralyzing his government, sympathizing with North Korea and refusing to pass his budget.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Yoon said the opposition politicians who control parliament are paralyzing the government and subverting democracy, accusing them of aligning with North Korea.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 4 Dec. 2024
Already this year, corporate giants like AT&T, Ticketmaster and United Health have suffered paralyzing cyberattacks, and now, businesses are bracing for the holidays, a time when many cybersecurity operations rely on skeleton staffing.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2024
The anxiety of overloading your skin with products can be paralyzing.
—Celeste Polanco, Essence, 22 Nov. 2024
Though the scale of the problem can feel paralyzing, many solutions are known.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
In 2007, after Estonia removed a Soviet war monument from downtown Tallinn, Russia conducted a massive cyberattack, paralyzing the country’s internet infrastructure for three weeks.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and Boeing leadership are locked in a paralyzing blame game over the strike, with both sides filing charges accusing the other of unfair labor practices during negotiations.
—Reuters, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2024
Shoshana Walter, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
Yoon had tried to justify his decree with accusations that lawmakers were paralyzing his government, sympathizing with North Korea and refusing to pass his budget.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Yoon said the opposition politicians who control parliament are paralyzing the government and subverting democracy, accusing them of aligning with North Korea.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 4 Dec. 2024
Already this year, corporate giants like AT&T, Ticketmaster and United Health have suffered paralyzing cyberattacks, and now, businesses are bracing for the holidays, a time when many cybersecurity operations rely on skeleton staffing.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2024
The anxiety of overloading your skin with products can be paralyzing.
—Celeste Polanco, Essence, 22 Nov. 2024
Though the scale of the problem can feel paralyzing, many solutions are known.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
In 2007, after Estonia removed a Soviet war monument from downtown Tallinn, Russia conducted a massive cyberattack, paralyzing the country’s internet infrastructure for three weeks.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2024
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and Boeing leadership are locked in a paralyzing blame game over the strike, with both sides filing charges accusing the other of unfair labor practices during negotiations.
—Reuters, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paralyzing
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Such flexibility offers these institutions a way to work with populists without undermining their broader missions.Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
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Those range from influencing who sits on powerful advisory boards to undermining public confidence in vaccines from the bully pulpit.Caitlin Owens, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
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This new era of AI can feel intimidating for the limited, human life forms that created it.Marc Zao-Sanders, Harvard Business Review, 17 Dec. 2024
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Only six years older than Crystal, the comedian still found Scorsese intimidating.Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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Included in the bipartisan plan to avert a government shutdown is a provision extending the authority of the Homeland Security and Justice departments to continue tracking and disabling unmanned aircraft that are deemed credible threats, pushing the deadline from December 20 to March 14.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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The combination of the pain and the pulsating eye was disabling.Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Instead of weakening, the civic movement gathered speed.Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2024
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The technical picture is weakening The stock's behavior is weak, as shown in the chart below.John S. Tobey, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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“Paralyzing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paralyzing. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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