1
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
Those controls had resulted in Anthropic having to disable both models for all users.
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
The company said the federal government had issued export controls that required it to block access to the model by foreign nationals — a broad order that Anthropic said effectively required it to disable the model.
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Joe Walsh,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
The public will once again be able to access Anthropic’s powerful Fable 5 model, the AI giant said Tuesday, weeks after the Commerce Department required the company to disable the model over potential security risks.
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Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
1 July 2026
Social media companies are forbidden from including the message in their terms and conditions or allowing users to disable the warning.
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Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
1 July 2026
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
2 July 2026
The company said the federal government had issued export controls that required it to block access to the model by foreign nationals — a broad order that Anthropic said effectively required it to disable the model.
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Joe Walsh,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
The public will once again be able to access Anthropic’s powerful Fable 5 model, the AI giant said Tuesday, weeks after the Commerce Department required the company to disable the model over potential security risks.
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Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
1 July 2026
Social media companies are forbidden from including the message in their terms and conditions or allowing users to disable the warning.
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Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
1 July 2026
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Sanctions on remittance and food delivery apps could further cripple the island nation, María José Espinosa, executive director of the Center for Engagement and Advocacy in the Americas, said.
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As a result, teams across the league have become more wary about handing out big-money, long-term deals in free agency, as one mistake has the potential to cripple a franchise.
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Once injected with venom, the prey is paralyzed and drained of bodily fluids.
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The storm paralyzed the East Coast from the Chesapeake Bay to Maine and even some parts of Canada from March 12 to March 14.
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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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Context that undermines sensational allegations is minimized.
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Allies include Brin’s Building a Better California, which is bankrolling two counter-measures aimed at undermining the billionaire tax.
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The Jackson County charges came after police accused Sanchez-Munoz in a series of shootings in Kansas City that left one man, Jeremy Keenan, dead and four others injured on June 16.
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French and Ukrainian media reported that a Ukrainian magnate and his family were those injured.
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The flow of dark traffic is one of the factors that helped explain why oil markets had weakened significantly by early June, together with a surge in exports from the US and pullback in buying by China.
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But as several surveys have consistently indicated, optimism about our country's outlook has undeniably weakened.
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“Disable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disable. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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