"It's not a crutch, ask President Obama, I didn't need any crutch," Biden said.
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"It's not a crutch, ask President Obama, I didn't need any crutch," Biden responded.
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Talking about your race can be seen as a crutch, but I don't think talking about anything is a crutch.
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"If I'm just walking in my crutches, I'll crutch, swinging my good leg, but if I'm racing, I'll do a sequence of 'crutch, leg and extra hop,'" she said.
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A man in a street fight over a pot deal somehow finds a metal crutch and beats his opponent until the crutch bends into the shape of the man's head.
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Transparency can turn into a crutch, can turn into laziness.
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Trump was using them as a crutch and a tool.
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Her relationship with Ms. Quigley "began as a crutch," Mrs.
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"I don't want a crutch of any kind," he said.
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A boy with a broken leg held up his crutch.
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Then you have some who used religion as a crutch.
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" 'Dear Dick' was a kind of crutch," she told me.
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They also can't all be pasta, which is my crutch.
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At first it's reassuring, a crutch to aid with the confusion.
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The big three nightly newscasts used the "critics" crutch as well.
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The company says production of the new crutch will begin soon.
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Political incorrectness became a crutch to justify racist and xenophobic views.
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"As a matter of fact, they are a crutch," he said.
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Scrolling through Instagram offers a crutch in an awkward social scenario.
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Inevitably, he hurts his leg, and Dickens gives him a crutch.
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Sometimes I can lean on having social media as a crutch.
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For a long time, I was using a wig as a crutch.
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"Then you had some that used religion as a crutch," Trump said.
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It gives a false sense of progress, and is ultimately a crutch.
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He uses a crutch to disarm people and is handsome like Bundy.
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For them it is not some abstract talking point or rhetorical crutch.
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Or is it something of a crutch to absolve her of blame?
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Clinton, Dunham, Griffin, Bee, and Schumer use feminism only as a crutch.
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Let's be honest and admit that the notch is just a crutch.
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Still, the greatest crutch lies in the "secretive hustle" he's helped patent.
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We use those stories as a crutch, a form of conversational closure.
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But that has become a crutch, Brian Blackstone of the WSJ writes.
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It's a solving aid, a crutch, is all the numbering really is.
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It shows a teenager punching and kicking a boy holding a crutch.
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She said sign language was a crutch that would hinder his speech.
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"It's just the crutch I use 'cause it's not easy out here."
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It's like a crutch when one walks unsteadily in this unsteady world.
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But he kept it in his elbow crease -- more ornament than crutch.
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"And don't let your children use you as a crutch forever," Rossman says.
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Cutting [myself] became a crutch to squash anxiety in a very different way.
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And Stearns resists the urge to use their relationship as a plot crutch.
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Similarly, for me personally, coming from a nonfiction background, it's probably a crutch.
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Now it feels like that crutch has been kicked out from under them.
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I'm very grateful for my family — they were my crutch during that time.
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And now, my phone has transformed into a crutch and a black hole.
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It started as a crutch, and became a dependency, a nervous tic, perhaps.
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"[Taking away H-4 EAD] is like taking someone's crutch away," said Ghosh.
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"Isn't she beautiful?" he remarked, his other hand holding on to a crutch.
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Continue giving advice and feedback on assignments, but don't serve as a crutch.
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Deep learning in particular leans heavily on large amounts of compute as a crutch.
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Mobility Designed created this ergonomic crutch to relieve pain on hands, wrists, and armpits.
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Cash-strapped public universities have used full-tuition Chinese students as a financial crutch.
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Otherwise, you're just treating retirement as a crutch — and that rarely ever works out.
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It's basically a crutch for how not good at world-building I am yet.
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But using a crutch to leave someone — again, many of us have done it!
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It was either the tool, or the crutch, of those who needed it most.
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He navigates life with a cane and a crutch, and immense upper body strength.
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They were a crutch that made life bearable and helped me to remain optimistic.
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On Wednesday, moderator April Ryan asked him if Obama was a "crutch" for him.
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Obama has also become a rhetorical crutch for Trump to defend his own decisions.
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Alcohol was my evening crutch, and if that meant passing out by 8 p.m.
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The results suggested that using computers as a cognitive crutch is a common tactic.
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And they're both about how easy it is to use toxicity as a crutch.
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But it was a crutch as I wrote summaries or tried to find my focus.
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Elon Musk previously explained that he views lidar as a crutch for self-driving vehicles.
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Bounced around from foster home to foster home, she's both Angel's crutch and her salvation.
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So it's like they're using their gear as a crutch to make up for that.
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It's harder to make money when you can't rely on the crutch of physical scarcity.
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Numerous critics noted Parabellum's weak plot and use of excessive violence as a storytelling crutch.
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In a short, dissatisfactory discussion, he turns to his favorite crutch—informational disclosures are transparent!
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That said, defensive plays haven't been the best crutch ** Consumer discretionary up 1.1 pct. Amazon.
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"I think I was relying on pornography as some kind of emotional crutch," he said.
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"He wouldn't give a crippled crab a crutch to get to a gumbo party," Mrs.
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The camera had been a crutch for Fleabag, her way of disconnecting from her surroundings.
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It's regularly repurposed as a linguistic crutch when an individual's gender is unknown or irrelevant.
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To the end, Rostow remained not just a supporter of the president, but a crutch.
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FAGLIANO: In my experience as a constructor, using a database can become almost a crutch.
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He sees VR as a kind of anatta crutch, just like any truly immersive storytelling.
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The drug is an effective hunger suppressant, making it an attractive crutch for those living rough.
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But he sees them as a crutch for restaurants that have let their pastry chefs go.
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"If an advisor is just using it to solve math problems, it's a crutch," Wood added.
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Swap out your black liner for a deep-navy one, and reassess your red-lipstick crutch.
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The creators of the M+D Crutch are moving closer to putting their redesign into production.
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Throughout it all, Alexis maintained that her last name never served as a crutch for stardom.
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Sometimes, the overt use of dismemberment as a crutch to punctuate the plot is highly unrealistic.
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Why was the Court Trump's biggest crutch with Republican voters both during the campaign and now?
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She was totally loyal to him and some colleagues believe she'd become a crutch for him.
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Nonetheless, there is real danger in Putin's attempt to lean on the crutch of nuclear hysteria.
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For others, they were a mystery to solve, or a crutch when the going got tough.
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The ambivalent satire of "Turn It Off" has weakened into a gimmick, a crutch, a dodge.
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It's an excellent casting decision, but one which immediately becomes a crutch for the show's writing.
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CARD CRUTCH Citigroup has leaned more on its card business since the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
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CARD CRUTCH Citigroup has leaned more on its card business since the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
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Instead he fell back on a reliable crutch: tethering himself to the legacy of President Obama.
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Most programs view medication as a crutch for short-term use and provide only talk therapies.
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Other pitmasters, like Ms. Tomanetz, wrap in aluminum foil, a process known as the Texas Crutch.
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Often the directors use the oppressive score, by Rupert and Harry Gregson-Williams, as a crutch.
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So now let me be as gentle as I possibly can: I think this was your crutch.
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A small tablet is mounted to the crutch as well, off to the side of his arm.
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As people grow richer, he argues, they abandon the crutch of belief and rely more on reason.
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She desperately tries to get Khloe to come with, but she doesn't want to be Kourtney's crutch.
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The risk, says Ms Shirai, is that monetary policy has become a crutch for the entire economy.
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It seems like we've created a psychological crutch for ourselves, and now we can't walk without it.
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Pikachu turned a depressing technological crutch into a joy; a small and ultimately useless act of defiance.
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Caught between commercials by a show producer, Hall declared that makeup wasn't her crutch (but earrings are!).
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Polypterus, mudskippers, and some catfish can crutch along for short distances by pushing off of their tails.
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Despite having a strong concept too, Antwood never uses it as a crutch to hide anything lackluster.
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The main crutch for that was to get soundtrack work, and we weren't really being offered any.
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Since the first explosion had been triggered that night, I had been using momentum as a crutch.
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The phrase is a crutch that journalists too often use to make implicit accusations they can't support.
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One fan wielded a crutch as a surrogate electric guitar, another pumped his cane into the air.
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But she's not just a crutch to be used and discarded by the men in her life.
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But after the shock of the financial crisis and recession, government spending remained an important economic crutch.
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Many of the pilots, Daniel included, will close it with a hook on the end of a crutch.
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Many people who feel overwhelmed by their personal problems come to use the emergency services as a crutch.
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But for anyone with physical challenges that require longterm crutch use, the devices can be a major barrier.
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But Han Solo eventually returned, with the iconic star using a special crutch to aide in his recovery.
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If you stuff your face until you're bloated every time you're depressed, ice cream can become a crutch.
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I used mental health as a crutch and kind of beat my boyfriend with it, which wasn't fair.
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Until you become a more stable, emotionally responsible, shame-free human being, unrequited love might be your crutch.
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I loaded the bikes on the trailer and headed back to my cousin's house, acting as his crutch.
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For working mother-of-two, Barbara Bracquene, it has become a go-to crutch for last-minute planning.
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I was friend, excuse, deus ex machina, joke, symptom, figment, specter, crutch, toy, phantom, gag, analyst and babysitter.
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And maybe we can all, like, do a better job of reducing our use of this verbal crutch.
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The Last Rocket is an attempt at defining himself without using the sound he popularized as a crutch.
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Our man then went back to his seat, where he had one crutch "to help walk," I suppose.
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But then something magical happens: Fleabag and Fleabag both start to realize that the audience is a crutch.
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I kicked away the crutch to see how everyday life — social awkwardness, boredom, all of it — really felt.
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"In my view it is a crutch," Musk said of lidar sensors during Tesla's February investor conference call.
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The dismal duo won't be fixed after this, but they will be less dependent on the taxpayer crutch.
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Although this is helpful in the aftermath of a breakup, it can't be used as a crutch forever.
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I've written about the moral bankruptcy of using the invisible wounds of veterans as a political crutch before.
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It's a small thing but most of the NXIVM community viewed alcohol as a "crutch" to be avoided.
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I didn't have beauty as a crutch, and I'm thankful for that because I had to develop my personality.
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Musk calls LIDAR "a crutch," and has long argued that it is too expensive and bulky for Tesla's vehicles.
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Being completely honest with you, I feel there was a certain amount of it that was just a crutch.
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The design features a single curved handle with three wheels that kind of looks like your grandparent's orthopedic crutch.
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It will therefore be interesting to see whether Samsung decides to entirely remove that usability crutch on the S9.
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" In another, Roman walked into a nearby room, pushing the door open with one crutch, sweetly yelling, "Hi, guys!
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Like, already using them as a crutch to escape the more difficult aspects of reality in the 21st century?
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It was kind of scary because when you don't have a crutch there, you don't know what will happen.
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I'd forgotten how to cope with that headspace without the help of some chemical crutch to see me along.
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Around noon an excavator, using its arm like a crutch, lowered itself into the creek bed behind the dam.
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Staying in one place is actually a crutch; studies show that changing environments is beneficial to productivity and creativity.
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But thinking is dangerous precisely because it undercuts any solid, holy crutch that can be leaned on for support.
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I hope that it's a little bit more like that, where it isn't like a daily kind of crutch.
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Different days you may play the role of child, parent, sibling or emotional crutch — some days all at once.
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It's not that old crutch of the pitcher win, which says absolutely nothing about how the pitcher actually did.
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Productive ambiguity can tip into unrealized potential, and "They Remain" ultimately leans too heavily on vagueness as a crutch.
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With conservatives increasingly scorning decency as a crutch for the weak, Wehner is a model of conscientious political engagement.
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Breaking the fourth wall can be a crutch, but in "Fleabag" the device shows as much as it tells.
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Ten months later, his face scarred, he moved slowly with a crutch and was unable to move his hands.
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Only when I was really able to let go of that crutch was I able to really find myself.
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Are the Seattle area tent cities a crutch that takes pressure off demands that government provide permanent affordable housing?
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The company has designed a crutch from scratch that removes the pressure from underarms and forearms, the traditional load-bearing areas for crutches, and shifts support to the elbows The shift to elbow support and moveable handles on the M+D Crutch allows users to use their hands without dropping the crutches.
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At film school, I learned that voiceover is a crutch used to prop up films that have a weak story.
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He offered the group Dr Pepper (his crutch of choice; he doesn't drink coffee or smoke cigarettes) and pushed Play.
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If the algorithm sees more wolves in different settings, it will adjust to no longer lean on the snow crutch.
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Instead, social media is just a crutch that people like Phil use to pretend they're happy and surrounded by friends.
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The second reason many people have been using as a crutch against the real reason for Trump's victory is sexism.
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"I totally don't mind going to Santa Barbara with you, but you can't use me as your crutch," Khloé warned.
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It's not stock Android, but TouchWiz has evolved so much over the last six years, it's no longer a crutch.
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Valderrama was a crutch for Demi through her hospitalization and visited her in rehab too ... and continues to do so.
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Later, Kennedy explained that he doesn't seem himself as an alcoholic, though he drinks as a crutch in social situations.
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Leon the Vietnam vet, leaning on his crutch at the bottom of the subway stairs, "Spare change?" echoing in baritone.
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Crucially, governments have to look beyond the monetary policy crutch that has characterized the recovery from the 2007-2009 recession.
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My one crutch—having someone to commit arachno-murder on my behalf—was gone when I apparently needed it most.
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Now that Fleabag has recognized us for the crutch we are, she can hopefully resume her life as it was.
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In my view, it's a crutch […] that will drive companies towards a hard corner that's hard to get out of.
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Kyagulanyi walked with a crutch when he appeared in a civilian court on Thursday where he was charged with treason.
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Data can be a sportswriting crutch although it's also true that baseball without statistics is like the Bible without words.
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But screens have now become a crutch for technologists, a lazy, catchall way to add digital experiences to every product.
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Manuel Nunes, who walks with a crutch, said he survived probably because his leg made him decide to stay put.
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In the hands of incompetent teachers, textbooks are a crutch for covering content that is typically memorized, regurgitated and forgotten.
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Upset by their innate inability to operate machinery, they have dismissed technology in toto as a crutch of the weak.
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Music remains my barometer, my crutch, and my teacher as I deal with the challenges that come with my mental illnesses.
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For Apple, the iPad Pro is stunning and has monstrous power that smokes the competition, but iOS is its biggest crutch.
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The jab almost disappeared, but the right front kick—which he toyed with in the early going—now became his crutch.
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"It's early, but you can't use that as a crutch," Nathan Gonzales, the editor and publisher of Inside Elections, told CNN.
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It's just made me more aware of when I'm using technology as a crutch or as a way of avoiding interactions.
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" She continued, "I didn't have beauty as a crutch, and I'm thankful for that because I had to develop my personality.
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I suspect most people have, like me, made an emotional crutch from some sappy work of middle-of-the-road art.
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Using the word 'just' is another social crutch that I have used in order to sound less severe and more palatable.
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I had used the crutch of overeating to get me through Buca until I was let go due to slow business.
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In a second picture, Nassar captures a young woman (unnamed by him, preserving her anonymity) counterbalancing her crutch and a slingshot.
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His invocation of incessant drug use isn't a crutch for masking superficial lyrics as it is with many of his peers.
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In some situations, they have become a distraction and a crutch—cutting people off from each other and their immediate surroundings.
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Like Obama in 2008, Buttigieg resists the "I'm a fighter" crutch on which so much Democratic messaging has leaned for decades.
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It wasn't until the strip show that I came to realize the extent that humor is still a crutch for me.
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Mr. Scalise, who suffered severe bleeding and damage to his organs, walked onto the field on Thursday night with a crutch.
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Prescription-strength steroid cream became my crutch, and my Google image search history was quite literally a sight for sore eyes.
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Does Mike Lee actually believe that his Utah colleague was using religion as a "crutch" to justify a vote against Trump?
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Boosterism provides a crutch to the party in power but it creates a boomerang effect when that party goes into opposition.
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The focus on mass public surveillance to address various issues not only undermines our democracy, it's a crutch for bad policies.
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I decided to watch the joint rolling instruction video, and coming into it, I didn't even know what a crutch was.
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As with any kind of crutch, the attempts we make to let go of our possessions will generate emotional stress and fallout.
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Baby has an endless collection of iPods — one for every occasion — but he never really grows enough to leave that crutch behind.
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FT: I needed the crutch of loaded objects as a way to make pictures that referred to paintings but weren't really paintings.
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A former Singaporean official once talked disdainfully of a "crutch economy", in which the rich were taxed heavily to support the poor.
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People are noticing that the GOP candidate uses the crutch of "many people are saying" to pass along outrageous and unproven assertions.
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Even with that crutch, I was still unable to defeat the first mid-boss and move onto the second section of demo.
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The new trend of gender-flipped blockbusters, like Ocean's 8 and The Hustle, to name a few, also leans on this crutch.
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This trope has always turned some people away from video games, and as the user base expands, violence becomes a mechanical crutch.
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People who weren't even there that night took it very hard, and believe it or not, they use me as a crutch.
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This is how "Atlanta" unfolds—characters speak to each other without the limiting crutch of helping the audience with context or exposition.
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Cohen, somber, walked into the courthouse surrounded by his family -- including his daughter, who was using a crutch after a recent surgery.
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A new charter would remove that crutch, and leave executives accountable as human beings for the rights and wrongs of their decisions.
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He aspires to be a way station for men who don't get such things, but he fears his refuge becoming a crutch.
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"I used food as a crutch, and I abused food in a way that I shouldn't have," she told Dr. Oz in 2012.
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The crutch that is that kind of crush, unattainable but not quite unimaginable, blunts any actual attempt at healthy intimacy with anyone else.
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Romney, he asserted, was merely using his faith as a "crutch," a line that drew a relatively muted reaction from the boisterous crowd.
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When Tallie meets a mysterious hot new boy who is drawn to her, he doesn't exist to be her crutch or her savior.
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CNN's source described Hicks as Trump's "last emotional crutch," suggesting her comments to the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday aggravated a tense situation.
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But it also serves a crutch, allowing the script to tend toward rambling exposition dumps that tell the story rather than show it.
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"Scott is partially using Bella and a few other girls as a crutch to make Kourtney upset and feel jealous," says the source.
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Over time, Carlton improved and was able to walk with a crutch by the time Parmenter and Shane wed on July 19, 2014.
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The bottom line: The paper warns that DAC should not be viewed as a crutch, but rather as complementary to emissions-cutting strategies.
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Musk called LIDAR a "crutch," and said the key problem in autonomous driving systems is passive optical recognition, which is done through cameras.
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Instead, she's a crutch for a president — her dad — who can't seem to trust experts or rely on those with actual policy experience.
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For years, having panic attacks was a quirk (and granted, a crutch) that I had learned to embrace as part of my identity.
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But to stand beside three other girls and to know that they are going through the same thing, we were each other's crutch.
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In nearly every pair, one twin had a spine gone awry, a bad leg, a patched eye, a wound, a scar, a crutch.
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After moderator April Ryan asked the 2020 front-runner if Obama was being used as a "crutch" for his campaign, Biden responded emphatically.
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A new charter would remove that crutch, and leave executives accountable as human beings for the rights and wrongs of their own decisions.
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By then, Hinch had already shown a willingness to find other pitchers for crucial spots, eschewing the crutch that managers often depend on.
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Ms. Steen said she sometimes clashes with other recovering addicts who buy into the notion that buprenorphine is just another opioid, a crutch.
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She added that the point can serve as a crutch; tossing it helped her to find more precise language to express her emotions.
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So I wanted to make a puzzle where asymmetry in the rebuses was essential to the theme and not just a construction crutch.
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And too often, I use the wall as a crutch — to catch me when I kick up too hard and start to fall backward.
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Beador's castmates (and some of her closest friends) alleged she's depressed, turning too frequently to alcohol as a crutch, and in need of medication.
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The iPad Pro's real crutch is iOS, which is fantastic, but it can't compare to a full operating system like macOS or Windows 21.
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"Those artificial parts of the games that make them fun to humans are still being used as a crutch for AI researchers," he said.
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"When it came time to dance, he flung [his crutch] to the side and everybody erupted into applause," Parmenter recalls of the sweet moment.
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The pill popping — opiates — started casually, a pill or two as a salve for high school football aches, but over time became a crutch.
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So today Spotify launched a slightly redesigned version of its iOS app that (thankfully) ditches the overused "hamburger menu" that's become a lazy crutch.
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"It became kind of a crutch where, for a while, I would have to smoke literally before every time I had sex," she says.
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He was nearly six feet tall and weighed 9113 pounds — some called him "Big Crutch" — but often carried his size to quiet comedic effect.
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But they've also shown us their guidelines -- as they stand -- seem more of a crutch and an excuse than a real barrier to action.
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That charge was included because Mr. Ramadan's second accuser is partly disabled, requiring her to walk with a crutch because of a car accident.
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This can best be achieved by helping consumers gain enough knowledge to make their own buying decisions without the crutch of the bottle review.
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I tried to close the door, but he was on crutches at the time, and he used a crutch to prop the door open.
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I don't want Apple to fall back on the crutch of just using desktop OS paradigms to solve the iPad's user interface intuitiveness problem.
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Social media users hoping to lean on their phones in order to avoid family interactions on Thanksgiving had a temporary loss of their crutch.
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I can't complain about any of this, but I will say that the theme, arch as it may be, seems like an unnecessary crutch.
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The president's power could be exercised arbitrarily, and governors have used military intervention as a crutch rather than set up their own police forces.
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He was back in court last Friday, walking with a crutch, as Mr. Tarrant pleaded not guilty to 92 counts, including murder and terrorism.
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"The cookie has always been this crutch that so much of the industry was predicated on," said Mike O'Sullivan, VP of product at Index Exchange.
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He wants to use magic again without the crutch of a magical device, but a powerful elf tells him that his humanity makes that impossible.
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Yes, the dialogue is heavily stylized, but Cody's proven with her work since then that it's not a crutch she requires in everything she writes.
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There is, finally, the therapy explanation Jacoby offers, also known as the A.A. theory, in which one uses religion as a crutch to escape addiction.
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And the crutch arm rests can pivot up and down, allowing the user to reach for things, while still supporting the weight of their body.
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Makeup, for me, is not a mask; it's not a crutch, not something I need in order to feel more confident or necessarily more beautiful.
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But the really big data crutch here is definitely telcos — who, after tech's platform giants, hold some of the richest and most detailed data around.
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DuBoise said she doesn't want Sakara to be a crutch, but rather a reference point for people who don't know what, or how, to eat.
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Cigarettes, previously a means of activating a social interaction, have become a stained crutch, the one permanent in a situation drifting into a chilly dawn.
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A third victim, who is 22, told police he had been using the club as a crutch, following an injury he sustained to his knee.
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Kate has dedicated her life to being Kevin's crutch, so Toby fills a similar void now that her brother is moving in a new direction.
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It's a crutch, almost, in much the same way faith can help religious believers feel more secure about the world and their place in it.
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Some critics suggest it's a crutch for independents and minor parties because they can compete without being spoilers and may earn invitations to more debates.
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In my practice, I've often seen how any tool can quickly become a crutch — an excuse to outsource decision making to someone or something else.
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"Unfortunately I have to do this ... After some time when I can walk with one crutch then it'll be easier to move around," he said.
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You could just accept that maybe I'm not as smart as you are, and that relying on pop culture is a convenient crutch for me.
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Cavaliers 111, Knicks 104 As the Knicks limp toward the All-Star break, their coach, Jeff Hornacek, is beginning to use optimism as a crutch.
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Most of us use GPS as a crutch while driving through unfamiliar terrain, tuning out and letting that soothing voice do the dirty work of navigating.
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Some people roll a little piece of cardboard or paper (called a crutch) on one end of their joint, but that can get gross and soggy.
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"For more than six months now, Russia has served as a crutch for the American imagination," wrote the Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen in March 2017.
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"Scott is partially using Bella and a few other girls as a crutch to make Kourtney upset and feel jealous," a source told PEOPLE on Thursday.
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Many of those movies have badass female characters doing badass fight scenes, but it seems like the filmmakers are all leaning on the same unimaginative crutch.
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We've had some fun with that whole concept around these parts before, but it's become a crutch for GMs under the gun to make a move.
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"In my view, it's a crutch that will drive companies to a local maximum that they will find very hard to get out of," Musk said.
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In his work, text is used as a dictionary for explaining some of the imagery of the Alien Sex Club, rather than as an explanatory crutch.
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But as I explained to them, I didn't want a story-only mode, I was looking for a crutch to lean on when I'd become exasperated.
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It supports Quick Charge 2.0 when it comes time to reup the 2,610mAh battery, but I wish BlackBerry had optimized for better longevity without that crutch.
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After leaving the hospital, he used a motorized scooter to get around the Capitol, before moving to a pair of crutches and then a single crutch.
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Stocks snapped a six-day losing streak Friday, as the unofficial start of the quarterly corporate earnings season offered a crucial crutch for a limping market.
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Tagovailoa was on the sideline for Alabama's 35-16 victory on Wednesday at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, using one crutch to help him get around.
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Tagovailoa was on the sideline for Alabama's 35-373 victory on Wednesday at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, using one crutch to help him get around.
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On tours for earlier albums, Mitski often performed with a bright-pink guitar; this had delighted fans, but she felt that it had become a crutch.
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That means the number of sweaters in my wardrobe has regretfully heaved, and I've been giving more serious consideration to my use of commerce as a crutch.
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During remarks at the White House on Thursday, Trump said Romney had used his faith as a "crutch" and has attacked him repeatedly in the days since.
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NO CRUTCH FOR MADURO The Treasury Department also renewed licenses for three months for oil field service companies Halliburton Co, Schlumberger, GE's Baker Hughes and Weatherford International.
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Musk has called LIDAR "a crutch" for the self-driving industry and has defended Tesla's strategy of achieving "full autonomy" using only cameras, radar, and ultrasonic sensors.
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Of course, these words weren't meant to be read on the page like poetry, but doing so reveals the beginnings of what would become a lyrical crutch.
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"We want to make sure we're giving them an opportunity to maintain a foothold but we don't want them to become Maduro's crutch," the senior official said.
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If Hangar 13 only leans on a poorly mythologized version of the 1960s as an aesthetic and narrative crutch, then Mafia III would be a missed opportunity.
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Filling out a short list with the above names is a crutch that prevents pundits from more creative thinking about who could be the next vice president.
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For this one, I tried to make the puzzle free of the normal three- and four-letter crutch words and use longer, more fresh and interesting vocabulary.
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What took me a couple of hours to get through, leaning on the crutch of continues, the very best can now speed-run in under 20 minutes.
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Without classes and the path to a degree as a crutch that gave structure to my days, I'd be forced to create a structure of my own.
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This secrecy was a useful tool, but it became a crutch too — a way for federal employees to cover up mistakes or to inflate their own importance.
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At the same time, she may use him as a crutch to get her through the pain of things without dealing enough with her feelings head on.
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With the plausible range in turnout varying by almost 25 percent, polling is an even less reliable crutch in Iowa than it is in most presidential primaries.
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It's no secret that drink and drugs are often considered socially acceptable, and sometimes actively encouraged in the music industry, therefore they can easily become a crutch.
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The highest-scoring American defenceman ever, Housley changed the game for undersized D-men, proving you could be an elite two-way threat without size as a crutch.
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We should ask Taylor, who, throughout this season, has used the idea of emotional intelligence as a crutch for her argument that Corrine and Nick don't belong together.
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But I wear a vaginal pessary, a sturdy silicone ring, slightly smaller than my palm, which sits neatly under my cervix as a crutch for my sagging uterus.
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But for me, it's now become a crutch that allows me to be lazy, uncreative, and often not as nutritious as I'd like when it comes to dinner.
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Instead of reaching for that coarse crutch you call a "peripheral," rather than suckle at the narcotic teat of the trackpad, try something new: Jump a word ahead.
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It is about encouraging political referees to think critically before using the Griffin episode as a crutch for the easy conceit that both sides have envenomed partisan politics.
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Don't wanna fall off so I'm all in my bag," is how Cole discusses money often being used as a crutch for people who obtain riches on "ATM.
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Before her unanticipated transition to crutch-racing, Nolting had appeared in the films "8 Reels of Sewage" (2012) and "Killing Slashers" (2013), as well as a few commercials.
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When he returned home, the crutch-dependent son and wheelchair-bound father (crippled by rheumatoid arthritis), united in grief, spent most every day together in the elder's studio.
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Phones, however, often rely as a crutch for parents, meaning they often incorrectly blame their child's issue, or challenges for how much time they spend on their phone.
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But democratizing these scales can also become an alibi for complacency — for allowing us to shift back into the daily, the private, the emotional, as crutch or buffer.
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" Moore responded that he saw Sanders give a speech Saturday "that went an hour and a half" and he "didn't use that lectern as a crutch or anything.
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"For a lot of Asian-American—a lot of minority—comedians, myself included, the crutch when you first start out is to do hacky ethnic jokes," he said.
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Nonetheless, this was an excellent group of wines, and a reminder that the Barolo of the South does not need to rely on a crutch from the north.
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Their humor is a crutch that keeps veterans from rejoining society in a meaningful way by retaining the backwards ideas about gender, gender identity, race, and sexual orientation.
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The medication they use would be viewed not as a crutch — a common view of buprenorphine — but as akin to insulin, aspirin, or any other medication for chronic conditions.
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I discuss things like Xanax and how I use it as a crutch in nerve-wracking social situations, instead of confronting the issue head-on that elicited the anxiety.
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"They could also be used as a 'crutch' to avoid having to deal with the underlying issues that are really at the root of the relationship problems," Earp explained.
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While clear alcohol might be Camille's greatest crutch, she also relies on angsty rock music, the kind that is alien to her hometown, to get her through the day.
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Inside, as usual, we're led to believe Kate is going to use food as a crutch for her emotional wounds, as she piles endless saucy items on her plate.
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" Michalla Gordon, a nursing student, told FOX-8 that "everything should be based on hard work, and I don't think that women need a crutch to get into science.
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The realization that "lol" has become a sort of a conversational crutch for me is somewhat disturbing, but I can take a shred of solace knowing I'm not alone.
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It will need more than conferences where little is risked but rather massive boots-on-the-ground organizations that use technology only as a tool rather than a crutch.
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My dependency on my phone has more or less dissipated—I'm texting less and no longer use it as a crutch for whenever I feel a pang of boredom.
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But when it worked, his comfort was like a crutch for me; it wasn't fixing the real problem, but it sometimes helped me get through those debilitating, unproductive thoughts.
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Her feat will not even rival the biggest crutch-racing news of last year, when a man with an arthritic knee finished a 13-kilometer race in 44 minutes.
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But if they prove unable to successfully negotiate with all stakeholders — if they must lean on their fiduciary crutch — then perhaps they shouldn't be CEOs in the first place.
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CreditCreditClara Vannucci for The New York Times DHAKA, Bangladesh — Mahmudul Hassan Hridoy, a sweet-natured, soft-spoken 32-year-old, walks with a crutch and suffers from terrible headaches.
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But what makes Clustertruck, Surgeon Simulator, and others truly funny is how the designers don't use the physics as a lazy crutch; they work in concert with everything else.
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"The neatest thing for me is to be able to get up out of bed and I can grab a club and not use it as a crutch," smiled Woods.
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The most compelling evidence for this theory is the fact Reggie breaks up with Veronica during "Big Fun" because she's using him as an emotional crutch for her parents' divorce.
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By overly relying on these plans and using them as a sort of financial crutch, you could find yourself paying back your loans for far longer than you had hoped.
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The right crutch has a joystick on the end of the handle, which Daniel can manipulate with his thumb, and a button beneath that, to click with his index finger.
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Judge Peter Kidd had extended bail for Pell, who had been walking with a crutch throughout the trial, to allow him to undergo double-knee surgery in Sydney in December.
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At some point -- ideally soon -- Trump needs to leave off using the fact that he shocked the world in 2016 as a crutch to justify anything and everything he does.
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The only thing that feels truly retro about Captain Marvel's '90s setting is its shallow take on feminism that we should be moving away from, not using as a crutch.
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The military acts as a moderating force, providing a check on government overreach, rather than using the armed forces as a "wag the dog" distraction or as an authoritarian crutch.
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"Stock picker's market" is a cliche that gets a bad rap because many market pundits use it as a crutch when they have no idea where the market is going.
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I often think computer-generated special effects are used as a crutch rather than a creative tool — so many digitally enhanced action sequences strike me as unimaginative and phoned in.
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The stick-figure dancers unsettle in their own way, though Ms. Otto-Knapp's quotations of Ashton and other modernist heroes seem, at this point, a crutch she could do without.
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Mr. Marshall's Porgy — drawn in a muscular social realist, almost comic-book-superhero style — stands braced for action, wielding his crutch like a weapon and carrying Bess, on his shoulders.
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Chinese trade and aid have long been a vital economic crutch for North Korea, and the decision strips North Korea of one of its most important sources of foreign currency.
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He sat on the couch where he was recovering from an ACL operation when Natalie suddenly went ballistic, grabbed his metal crutch and began swinging, targeting his bum knee and head.
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By determining where the incisions will appear (or not), the artist has turned what could have easily become a crutch or even a brand into just another option in her toolbox.
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Imagination works as both a blessing and a crutch, and both Leola and her mother struggle with their shadows, unable to tell whether or not their impulses are leading them astray.
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About 200 people gathered for a peaceful protest in front of Tulsa's Civic Center Plaza on Tuesday night, holding signs reading: "Justice 4 Crutch" and calling for Shelby to be arrested.
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And we all like to use that as a crutch, but we've got to stop with the excuses you have to put it in your calendar and you have to go.
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Musk recently called the technology a "crutch," and argued that while it makes things easier in the short term, companies will have to master camera-based systems to keep costs down.
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Substance abuse: Our industry is awash in alcohol and other substances that founders and tech workers are encouraged to consumer freely for bonding, as a social crutch and for performance optimization.
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Sure, some people hide behind their apps or use them as a crutch, but these findings (which, yes, come from a less-than-unbiased source) turn that stereotype on its head.
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Washington (CNN)Donald Trump did something new -- and relied on the much-maligned crutch of the modern American politician for his speech to a pro-Israel group in Washington on Monday.
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One friend, a speech therapist whose brother is deaf, told me not to sign at all with Sam because he would use it as a crutch instead of learning to speak.
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In some stage adaptations, Tiny Tim is healed by Scrooge's generosity — he no longer limps or uses a crutch — a resolution that advocates for the disabled say is unrealistic and problematic.
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Despite using a crutch to help herself to the stage, she is still cracking jokes and producing engaging performances four or five times a month, touching the hearts of adoring fans.
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Normally when I experience those feelings I ignore them by looking at my phone, but without my crutch, I simply put down my towel, sat, and waited for things to begin.
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During an episode of Dr. Phil's podcast Phil in the Blanks earlier this year, Turner talked about her struggles with depression and how Williams' friendship at that time acted as a crutch.
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Okoro, who averages 13.1 points a game, suffered the injury during Wednesday's home victory against Alabama but was seen walking on campus the following day, limping with the assistance of one crutch.
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Jessica Jones is a private detective born with super strength and an equally strong affinity for alcohol, a crutch that can partially be blamed on the season's big bad, Kilgrave (David Tennant).
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Conceptually, however, the Touch Bar feels like a crutch; instead of making the entire screen touch-friendly, Apple added a little touchscreen below it, replacing the (now truly obsolete) hardware function keys.
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Although Bishops said grandparents can provide an extra set of hands, support and even be a psychological crutch, not having them involved in the raising of kids can also be very liberating.
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And for Weeknd's fatal kryptonite to be a bruised heart—as opposed to the vices he uses as a crutch, or the dreams and insecurities that terrorize him,—is peculiar at best.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has called lidar sensors, which send out pulses of light to detect objects around them, a crutch that is not necessary for vehicles to drive without human assistance.
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People accusing sufferers of using it as a crutch or an excuse for erratic behavior are only pushing us deeper into the pit of isolation that worsens the symptoms and the pain.
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They called it SIGINT Crack, because it was so addicting and easy to use and exploit, but it was a crutch, covering up for a lot of bad methodology and lesser analysis.
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A gentle snow is falling as a child sings a holiday song on a city street, her small metal crutch laid on the ground beside the plastic cup she's brought for donations.
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After the game, Sanchez, who has a history of lethargic play, refused to lean on the injury as a crutch for his lack of effort, and he reiterated those sentiments on Tuesday.
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A Chicago bride who was nearly a week away from her wedding had to overcome a major obstacle — and thanks to a special crutch, her big day went off without a hitch.
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Once the hands-free crutch arrived in the mail, Vaughn had to practice walking with it — a process that she said was nerve-wracking and took some time to get used to.
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When cops arrived, they say they noticed she had "visible scratches and redness" on her arm as well as "redness and an abrasion" on her right elbow from falling onto Howard's crutch.
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And Biden's repeated invoking of the presidency of Barack Obama -- who has become a talismanic figure in his party -- is beginning to look more like a crutch than a strong political point.
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" Michael Owen Jones, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, interrogated the subject in his thoughtful 2014 paper "Dining on Death Row: Last Meals and the Crutch of Ritual.
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Seen this way, relatability is a crutch for those who lack the faculty or the patience to be challenged by art — it's a vapid, selfish lens through which to offer a critique.
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Mr. Anderson, who has cerebral palsy and uses a crutch, lives in a market-rate one-bedroom rental in an elevator building in Kew Gardens, Queens, that rents for $1,500 a month.
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It doesn't have the crutch of a cut out for the front camera like the Essential Phone, nor does it rely on curved screens to hide the sides of the phone like Samsung.
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"People are also realizing she used this crutch of this 'grand coalition' — the joining together of the two major parties —so people feel like they don't have any political options," said David-Wilp.
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Levandowski contends that this "race" to deploy autonomous vehicles has yet to start in earnest largely due to shortcomings from "crutch technologies," a descriptor he uses for hardware like LiDAR and HD maps.
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It's fine as a crutch for anyone fully habituated to touch interactions, but I consider it borderline sinful to get a camera as naturally intuitive as this and use it like a smartphone.
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"Note: never let a broken bone get in the way of good dinner party," she captioned a photo of herself in a kitchen surrounded by friends who all look down at her crutch.
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TG appears to use his buddy as a crutch as they exit the restaurant ... and while he's making his way to his car, there seems to be SOMETHING going on with his leg.
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When I think about exploiting black women, we need to have to be very careful with black pain and black trauma and how it is often used as a crutch for critical thinking.
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It was definitely a crutch for me, and I wanted to try to find a way to get my steps out of the way earlier in the day to free up my night.
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Featuring appearances from members of Dusk, Tenement, and Technicolor Teeth, the album was recorded and produced by Wilde and Matt Stranger in the Crutch of Memory studio in their home in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Mr. Carson believes federal aid should be regarded only as a temporary crutch for families moving from dependency to work and sees the rent increases as a way to expand his agency's budget.
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HOLLY BALLARD-GARDNER, TUCSON To the Editor: The obvious way to improve the quality and diversity of incoming freshman classes is to get rid of the SAT, the crutch of lazy admissions offices.
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Pleasantries dispatched, Ms. Somers managed a vampy strut — as vampy as you can strut with a crutch, anyway — down a hallway that features "wellnes" offerings so "modrn" that extraneous letters are scarcely needed.
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Long John Silver, the story's most fabled character, hurls his crutch at the back of an innocent shipmate, knocking him to the ground — then hops over to stab the man with a knife.
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The departure of Hicks -- the young woman who became as much an emotional crutch as a communications director -- leaves the inner circle of a President for whom loyalty is an obsession in tatters.
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As the economy recovered, the Fed decided to take away that crutch and since the fall of 2017, it has gradually reduced its holdings at a pace of about $45 billion per month.
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If you have a soft spot for green tea infusions, Italian fruit cake, and fudge whipped cream, you might consider grabbing your passport and following your taste buds and caffeine crutch around the world.
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She walks with the support of a crutch since losing the use of her right leg at the age of eight due to an unknown illness that also put an end to her education.
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If the United States declares an "end to hostile intent," as Kim would like, he may get a victory at home, but he also loses the ability to invoke that crutch in the future.
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But it typically blurs your vision, causes your arms to tingle, and makes you peeconstantly, so use it less like a crutch and more like a backup if you find you're acclimatizing too slowly.
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There's a naked, nervous exploration that's apparent in every corner of the game, where the game's simultaneously trying to honor the nearly 30-year history of Final Fantasy without turning it into a crutch.
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Some of these professionals believe that speech is superior and signing is only a crutch for spoken language acquisition, despite the fact that A.S.L. has been recognized as a full language since the 1960s.
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JL: We are both constantly negotiating how to create independent positions for ourselves as artists without falling into the crutch of identity politics or bland universalism (one facet of this is pan-American Indianism).
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"Strange but True," directed by Rowan Athale, from an Eric Garcia script adapted from John Searles's novel, opens with Philip, hobbling through the woods on one crutch, clearly trying to get away from danger.
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It took me a moment to realize what I was seeing—that he had only one leg and his awkward grace was a result of attempting to get up using a single metal crutch.
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Black daughters who rush to act as their mother's crutch, the one to make her facial muscles tense and reveal all of her teeth, her deep belly laugh a satisfaction in its own right.
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"You don't want to use it as a crutch, but you take Erik out — not only our best player but arguably the best player in the world — and it hurts," Ottawa winger Bobby Ryan said.
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The mid-season promotion of Jim Bob Cooter to offensive coordinator was a huge success last year; Cooter will have to get even better overall execution out of Stafford without the crutch of Johnson's talent.
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The first project consists of writing C code from scratch — no wait, it gets better — using your own handwritten set of C library functions, rather than being allowed to lean on the crutch of stdlib.
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Ms. Nolting has some tips for would-be crutch racers: Wrap the tops with sports shirts and smear your underarms with an antichafing gel; wear the thickest gloves you can find; and optimize your hop.
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The regular boom of an anti-air gun reliably masks your sniper fire when you're infiltrating a Nazi base, but that helpful crutch disappears when missions take you to rural farmlands or secret research facilities.
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As the dream sequence – which is exclusive to PEOPLE – continues, Agent Sousa, who normally walks with a limp, drops his crutch and begins a song and dance routine that sweeps Agent Carter off her feet.
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I suppose when you've introduced magic into your storyline, it's easy for it to become a crutch when you've written yourself into a corner, but it makes the central message of each show somewhat muddled.
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But if Ms. Ballerini has a crutch, it's the specter of Ms. Swift, who has demonstrated more than anyone how to dismantle Nashville's patriarchy in recent years, and whose playbook she is sometimes peeking at.
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While it is the urgency of the climate crisis that drew so many to the plan, the Green New Deal gives false hope to young people and provides campaigning politicians, like Sanders, a rhetorical crutch.
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This tendency can be frustrating — and one begins to suspect it is a crutch, since our current spate of anarchists, populists and terrorists are so much less theoretically minded and articulate than their antique antecedents.
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The precedent would be a crutch that repressive regimes around the world could lean on when they set out to compel developers to help them curb security, privacy, and free speech in their own countries.
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Without giving users a groupthink crutch to influence their own decisions on what to click the heart button on, a web of content less-focused on stats might lead them to things that actually break into.
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While the M+D Crutch looks like a dramatic improvement over the status quo, it's going to take some time for it to replace axillary and forearm crutches, which have been around since the early 1900s.
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Miles away from a traditional damsel in distress, she is refreshingly calm, tough, quick-thinking and competent, whether she is whittling a crutch into a sharpened stake or fashioning a hazmat suit from a shower curtain.
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The established intellectual property and universes that media companies like Disney and WarnerMedia have been stockpiling could be a crutch in streaming, which requires a steady supply of fresh programming for different audiences, according to Sarandos.
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His unscripted live-streamed show gives a raw, unfiltered window into the life of a bipolar 20-something striver, trying to eke out a meaningful existence without the crutch of family money, or a traditional job.
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" The book "features Knausgaard unbound, writing for the first time without a gimmick or the crutch of extravagant experimentation, the endurance test of 'My Struggle' or the staccato essays of his previous books on the seasons.
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I want to apologize to my family for having them have to go through a phony rotten deal by some very evil and sick people, and then you have some that used religion as a crutch.
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The hands-free crutch also enabled Vaughn and Li to share their first dance together as husband and wife, which the bride said meant everything to her, despite not being able to do their rehearsed routine.
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After your appointment, you could enroll in a research study monitoring your crutch use, and while your identity will remain confidential, your medical blockchain data will be shared and compiled with others who have the same injury.
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Although these companies now have the boasting rights of graduating from Alphabet's prestigious innovation lab, the two newly independent startups will basically continue doing the same work as before (though without the incubator label as a crutch).
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As AI capabilities improve, we can either treat it as a crutch that relieves us from thinking — examples include Waze and Google Maps — or as an asset that helps us use our brains more effectively and creatively.
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This penalty becomes a crutch for referees who don't want to call penalties late in games, so by getting rid of something that shouldn't warrant a power play, maybe referees will call actual penalties when they happen.
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I think it's created a crutch for other companies that really don't have an economic model that's working, and it's created a bank account that people can tap into and not have to solve their business problems.
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My job requires me to be surrounded by food and drinks often, so I try not to make it a crutch, but a delicious CRUMBS cupcake and wine has been a great Band-Aid in the past.
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But the truth behind her crutch would hardly make Chrissy Snow blush: a stress fracture, made worse by a tumble from the private tram to her 93-acre compound in Palm Springs, Calif, while partying with friends.
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"I kept my physical therapist close to me because me and my wife planned on getting married when things settled and I wanted to walk my wife down the aisle without a crutch, without a cane," says Morgan.
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Its weakness provided a big boost to FTSE 100 companies with earnings in dollars due to the currency conversion gains, but now that crutch for large-caps is gone and with it a major reason for holding them.
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Improvising during a training session on hills, Nolting developed a technique that she calls a "hop crutch" — keeping her crutches falling at a proper momentum while maintaining a steady cadence, in a rhythm she likened to controlled falling.
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From early on, my palms could interpret the small movements transmitted up the aluminum shafts as the rubber crutch tips stuttered against, slipped on, or stuck into snow, mud, thick grasses, oily pavement, or the shifting of gravel.
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And Oklahoma City's Crutch, who play 30-second hardcore jams in the vein of Minor Threat, revealed the ongoing need for the genre in the first place with its new song "Pulse," about this June's Orlando nightclub massacre.
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He's a big boy, in the 99th percentile for height and weight, and I can tell that he doesn't need to eat when he wakes up in the middle of the night; it has become a crutch for him.
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The most enduring element in pop isn't the beauty or youth of the performer, but the constant, recurring, ever-present lyrical crutch that is the second person (check out this Billboard list of most common song titles for proof).
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Perhaps they didn't realize to what extent this administration would rely on the religious right as a crutch to stay in power and how their special interests would be privileged above the needs and interests of all other citizens.
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You can go from zero to head-to-toe enchantments quickly if you know where to look, but by virtue of presenting a completely new world, Enderal deprives you of the crutch a veteran player might instinctively lean on.
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But the structure led my family to a new kind of interactive storytelling: They trade tales on car trips, and I use the style as a narrative crutch at bedtime when I am out of ideas in the dark.
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Because if you, as his mother before you, are bound up with his habit, it becomes even more essential to tell him clearly that you are sympathetic about his anxiety, but using your mane as a crutch is unacceptable.
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Along the lower rows of the west-facing bleachers, their caregivers talk about walking them through the halls at school, holding their hands only as long as they believe the child needs it, not wanting to become a crutch.
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Without using medication as a crutch, I must repair broken skills: how to have a conversation with someone without interrupting him or her, how to sit still and focus on my work, how to remember my appointments and organize my things.
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It's true that there are plenty of autonomous bots out there for last mile delivery (etc.), but these machines typically operate in one of two environments — large outdoor spaces where GPS can act as a crutch and static indoor spaces.
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Here, the indispensability and, indeed, the primacy of the verbal supplement pokes you like a stick in the eye, though the show ultimately does more to celebrate than critically examine curatorial mediation as a crutch for artists and visitors alike.
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Some of these works are steeped in specific cultural references to the period, like Ready Player One, which used viewers' positive feelings about the time as a sort of crutch to get them to feel good about the work itself.
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And then I was using [alcohol and prescription drugs like Vicodin, Adderall, and Ambien] as a crutch, rather than as something I would do with my friends in the off season to blow off steam, which is how it started.
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MANILA/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Governments across Southeast Asia have a history of using laws and the judiciary to curb press freedoms - now, they have found a handy crutch to lean on as they intensify clampdowns: U.S. President Donald Trump's "fake news" mantra.
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I think it had a huge impact, and I think a lot of people, unfortunately—and I will take probably some slack for this—still try to use that as a crutch as to why they don't know how to swim.
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The punk in me that once challenged gender as a whole began finding power in feminine extremes but slowly this became a crutch as I began feeding off the way my new aesthetic not only excited men, but made them weak.
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Read more: Moving my tech startup from Silicon Valley to DC was the best decision I made, and I'm convinced more founders should try itDan: Technology can be used as a crutch or it can be used to develop stronger relationships.
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At this point I couldn't locate my own ass without consulting Google Maps, so the prospect of trying to navigate New York City—a city I had moved to only a few months prior—without this cartographic crutch was daunting.
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Without using medication as a crutch, I must repair broken skills: how to have a conversation with someone without interrupting him or her, how to sit still and focus on my work, how to remember my appointments and organize my things.
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"You can use it as a crutch and say, 'Oh poor me this happened to me,' or you can use it as an empowering thing and say, 'I'm going to learn from this and I'm going to be better from it.'"
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"The use of the algorithm seems to be kind of a crutch," said Ari Paparo, the chief executive of the ad tech start-up Beeswax, who recently pointed out valuable unfilled ad space on The New York Times's website on Twitter.
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That's not to say this tool is a crutch that will prescribe all the answers for us; rather, it provides policymakers, teachers and the public with a sandbox to test a range of ideas using a statistically sound, independent resource.
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Do you think comfort animals are a crutch that end up hurting students in the long run, or are they a valuable help on campus, not just to the students who own them, but to the campus community as a whole?
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During his 2016 presidential campaign, he proudly spoke (and spoke and spoke) off the cuff, painting the use of teleprompters as the crutch of status-quo politicians who either didn't know what they thought or were afraid to say it.
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Today, the way many Republicans accept and even encourage the attacks on him from Mr. Trump, who last week accused him of using "religion as a crutch" to justify the impeachment vote, vividly illustrates the turn the party has taken.
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Based upon how well the GT S performs, chances are good that engineers of the GT R didn't lean on the all-too-common crutch of bolting up bone-crunching suspension or over-stiffen the chassis in order to achieve better lap times.
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One reader explained that she felt "conscious of the fact that I use carbs as an [emotional] crutch" after completing the program, but expressed that she felt apprehensive at first about resuming "normal" eating, because she liked the way she felt on Whole30.
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While I've argued that heavy buyback activity was more a background factor and psychological crutch for investors rather than a direct driver of stock prices, it's also true that some patients get sick right around the time they stop taking a placebo.
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It's not that we didn't know this about Toby already — that he uses humor as a crutch — but they do a great job of showing Toby's formative years, and the kids they cast as young Toby (Dylan Gage and Luke Clark) are terrific.
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Using a ski pole as a crutch to support the left leg he injured when he barreled into the safety netting at the Yongpyong Alpine Centre, the 27-year-old said he did not think it was serious but he was nonetheless crestfallen.
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Naps shouldn't be a crutch for sleepless nights: "It might help short-term to get you through the day for a few more hours, but it really isn't going to do your body and brain any good in the long run," she says.
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While it's the lamest critical crutch to bring in autobiography, I'm going to anyway: Satyal was born in this country to immigrants from India, so you might think he'd be most adept at writing Prashant, the book's major American-born Indian character.
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Even when given a large dataset of hotdog and not hotdog training images, the model wasn't quite able to grasp the abstract concepts of what generally constitutes a hotdog and instead seemed to use bad heuristics as a crutch (red sauce = hotdog).
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I feel the need to present a concrete alternative that might free us to jettison that crutch and replace it with a solid and realistic criterion of self-identification that nevertheless cannot be confused with tangential issues of self-worth or social status.
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Even though the hands-free crutch seemed ideal, there were still some obstacles in front of Vaughn that she had to overcome — namely the crutch's handle, which she said "stuck out three inches" and wouldn't fit under her trumpet-style wedding gown.
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The promise of the report's eventual release has been something of a crutch for Mr. de Blasio's administration — proof that the city was in fact working on a plan — but it may cause headaches for the mayor now that it actually exists.
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Movies like this have to be at least part of the reason my mom decided to take me whale-watching a month after I was out of the hospital—even though I still had double-vision and an arm crutch because of my balance issues.
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"It's now 33 years after buprenorphine's been approved [by the Food and Drug Administration], and you still have an awful lot of docs — you even have our [former] secretary of health and human services — who [say] medication-assisted treatment is just a crutch," Brooklyn said.
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What gets lost in the fight to deem the safety pin movement good or bad, or to write it off as a facile white crutch, is that a lot of people in this country are feeling a very real sense of helplessness right now.
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If you find that you constantly use food as a crutch, going to therapy can be helpful, and help you understand where that instinct is coming from, says Angel Planells, MS, RDN, a Seattle-based registered dietitian nutritionist and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
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While a full 3D Zelda game seems like it wouldn't work nearly as well on mobile, Anderson's flattened-down style feels like an ideal take on a two-dimensional Zelda game, instead of just falling back to the creative crutch of re-creating a 16-bit look.
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And when judges hear a case in which dozens of Christian charities and schools say that filling out a form designed to protect them actually constitutes a mortal threat to their beliefs, a skilled lawyer is wise to supply the berobed ones with a conceptual crutch.
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Before adorning Rose with the medal, Trump retold Rose's exploits in detail, noting at one point that Rose "used a branch as a crutch" after he was wounded and "fired at the enemy with one arm" as he rushed from one wounded comrade to the next.
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He said last week during a fundraiser that he won't use Obama as a "crutch" in his campaign and that his bid is not a "continuation" of the Obama-Biden administration because there are "new problems" on the scene that did not exist at that time.
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Similarly, season two initially feels as though the talking-to-the-camera thing is a crutch that Fleabag relies on, having outlived its usefulness now that its title character has started to properly grieve her dead friend Boo and the role she played in Boo's death.
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I find that, most of the time, my relationship with alcohol is similar to that of my peers: fun, often a social lubricant, occasionally a crutch, and every now and then, after a particularly grisly night, something I swear off, at least for a little while.
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In the meantime, he said, he would not allow his party to join a government of anti-European extremists and be a "crutch to a government of anti-establishment forces" who, he said, stood for closed societies, fake news, a culture of fear, intolerance and hate speech.
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That some artists, forced to speak a language they don't fully understand, will often undercut, misrepresent, or overburden work that would have been better left to stand on its own, and, conversely, that other work has no leg to stand on without the crutch of discourse.
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Master dramatizes the current state of play in the art world (but the lessons carry over to other arenas of culture, like sports), demonstrating not just that we privilege the individual personality too much; rather, we don't know how to look at art without leaning on that crutch.
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In the painting "Drinnen und Draussen" (Inside and Outside), members of the elite celebrate on the right side of the composition, flush, fat and well stocked with Champagne and cigars, while on the left, a disheveled man with a crutch and a wooden leg begs from passers-by.
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Each time I was knocked down — by a patch of black ice, by a tangle of feet and elbows in a crowd, by a child who grabbed a crutch away from me to see what would happen — I'd find my pride again in the power of my arms.
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As Gizmodo wrote in 2014, citing research by the Sensory Perception and Interaction Research Group, at University of British Columbia, white backgrounds act as a "crutch" for astigmatic eyes: My own very-astigmatic eyes are exhausted by dark mode, but for many others, dark themes are an accessibility benefit.
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The French language doesn't offer the linguistic crutch of "teen" years: You're douze ans, then treize, quatorze, quinze … The Matzneff story has brought back memories of the case for pedophilia made by a small intellectual elite who toyed with sexual transgression to the point of insanity in 1968.
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When music fans of a certain age gripe about how what's happening now is infinitely inferior to what was happening back in the day, it is almost always false — an easy crutch to lean on instead of acknowledging the creativity of a new generation with different aesthetics and values.
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Netflix Has Become Our Collective Conversational Crutch The Netflix rep I spoke to said they were really excited to discover the "six shows" statistic because it's a play on the old "six degrees of separation" adage — the idea that all people are six social connections (or fewer) away from one another.
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Free agency is the long-term play for a franchise that—until further notice—has chosen to follow the pre-James Harden, post-Tracy McGrady/Yao Ming Houston Rockets model, where going from the middle to the top without using the lottery as a crutch is the task at hand.
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The Walking Dead's laziest writing crutch is using short, shallow scenes as an excuse to check in on characters, where faces most people have long forgotten about or don't much care for are brought back into the fold just to tie up loose ends and remind viewers where ancillary subplots stand.
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Football has absolutely nothing to do with the music that Penelope Trappes and Stephen Hindman make as The Golden Filter, but it is a handy contextual crutch for thinking about their latest album, Still // Alone, a ravaged, beaten, bruised and decidedly icy record that's defiantly (and definitely) split in two.
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Her restraint — her refusal to display her intellect through the portals of her wounds — loomed large in my mind as a kind of stylistic superego, reprimanding me for relying on the easy crutch of vulnerability, for peddling the soft tissue of the personal: Sometimes I'm just as unhappy as you are.
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"The idea of empathy is something people are leaning on as a crutch to defend something, instead of facing head-on the question: What is your motivation for writing about people in this way?" said Namwali Serpell, a Zambian-born novelist whose debut, "The Old Drift," drew acclaim last year.
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Time has run out for low-polling candidates Democratic long-shots in a field that once topped 20 candidates for months have leaned on the late-breaking history of presidential nominating battles as a rhetorical crutch: 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry trailed Howard Dean into late 2007, they point out.
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" In March 2002, Miller -- age 16 -- wrote a lengthy opinion editorial for the Santa Monica Lookout that argued "very few, if any, Hispanic students" make it to honors classes because the school provides a "crutch" to those who don't speak English by ensuring "all announcements are written in both Spanish and English.
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Why this matters: Brexit is forcing big banks to look to outside the U.K. as the pressure on costs and margins increases with the prospect of operating without the crutch of the E.U. Meanwhile, eastern European cities offer a much cheaper option than the more predictable European cities in France and Germany.
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The challenge is that it is a rub against the ordinary (nobody does Dry January because they are light drinkers who can easily do it—they do it because alcohol is part of their life, a social lubricant, a crutch), but not enough of a rub for it to be anything other than dull.
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Before Game 1 of the National League Division Series between the Nationals and Chicago Cubs on Friday, the Louisiana Congressman used a walker and crutch to position himself in front of the pitcher's mound as he threw the baseball to U.S. Capitol Police officer David Bailey, who was also injured during the June shooting.
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I think there is still a long way to go for these companies, both in terms of how (and if) they start to manage their P&L sheets without the crutch of external funding; and whether they really will, as they have promised, completely change the face of transportation as we know and use it.
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Although most people who use illegal drugs are not happy that they must buy from a corrupt and damaging trade—and are some of the most vocal campaigners for drug-law reform—they cannot use their ideal world as a crutch; they have to make a moral decision based on the here and now.
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"If the president were to simply calm down the rhetoric on China, rather than taking them on like some kind of trash-talking wide receiver, the bears would lose their biggest crutch," said the host, who blamed fears about the bond market on "angry rhetoric and frightening jeremiads from supposed experts" who should listen to conference calls.
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"If the president were to simply calm down the rhetoric on China, rather than taking them on like some kind of trash-talking wide receiver, the bears would lose their biggest crutch," said the "Mad Money" host, who blamed fears about the bond market on "angry rhetoric and frightening jeremiads from supposed experts" who should listen to conference calls.
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Instagram, probably because of its visual nature and the ability to follow pretty much anyone, even people you don't know who'd never friend you on Facebook so don't even try, and peek into their life at any given moment and see what's up and is it better than your own, is my obsessive control addict's crutch of choice.
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" CNN also previously reported that in 2002, when Miller was 16 years old, he penned an opinion editorial for the Santa Monica Lookout that argued "very few, if any, Hispanic students" make it to honors classes because the school provides a "crutch" to those who don't speak English by ensuring "all announcements are written in both Spanish and English.
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Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden Panel: Jill Biden's campaign message MORE made clear Wednesday that he does not need former President Obama as "a crutch" to aid his 85033 presidential candidacy.
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Speaking before the game, Tabárez, who walked with a crutch as he battles a chronic illness that affects his nerves, explained that for a nation like his, obsessed with soccer but suffering from shortages of people and infrastructure, it was important to imbue the squad with characteristics particular to the country's place in the world, its reality.
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Of course, negotiations to end the partial government shutdown must come in the form of a game show — not only is the format a longtime crutch for SNL (in fact later in the show, there's yet another game show, "Millennial Millions," again hosted by Thompson), but as we've seen time and time again, reality TV is the ideal environment for our president.
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Reproductive health and childbirth is a crutch, and Lucas gets away with it because his audience accepts that these things are mysterious and cannot be intervened with the way that that the loss of limbs can be remedied with robot prosthetics, or the way Luke can be rescued from near-death on Hoth by being submerged in a bacta tank.
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Another problem is that by simplifying the growing of almost unimaginably large tracts of crops, especially corn and soybeans, G.M.O.s have become an indispensable crutch for the fertilizer- and pesticide-dependent monoculture that is wrecking our land and water and generating the execrable excess of corn- and soy-based junk food that is sickening our population and decreasing our life spans.
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The 54-year-old mother of three was more than overwhelmed last week when Tamra Judge, Vicki Gunvalson, Kelly Dodd, Emily Simpson and Gina Kirschenheiter confronted her on a tense night of their Jamaica vacation and alleged (among other things) that she's depressed, is turning too frequently to alcohol as a crutch to get through her nasty divorce and needs medication.
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To get back on the rails and cash in on some of the momentum the show built over the last few episodes, The Walking Dead needs to establish Negan's end game — and do it in a way that feels motivated by the legitimately satisfying web of relationships the show has established — rather than relying on the crutch of it being something Kirkman did in the comic years ago.
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That means the ploy to expose the whistleblower feels much less substantive and much more like a crutch for Republican attacks, Vox's Andrew Prokop recently told Today, Explained: It seems more of an effort at retaliation rather than a good faith effort to check their information, because the person's information has already been completely confirmed at this point by all the documents and testimony from other witnesses that have come out.
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Written by the actor over seven years, without the aid of a ghostwriter (a crutch often used by celebrity authors), this somber, intimate and at times wrenching self-portrait feels like an act of personal investigation — the private act of a woman, now 71, seeking to understand how she became herself, and striving to cement together the shards of her psyche that have been chipped and shattered over the course of her life.
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This isn't far from what Theodor Adorno meant when he talked about the "fetish-character" in music, the way that scraps and phrases of great classical pieces are isolated from their context in the work itself, atomized and commodified, so that they can come to stand for "high culture," a chimera that in practice wasn't much more than a crutch for the ego, a way of looking down at other people who don't fetishize the grand signifiers of art.
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My testable hypothesis is that the average complexity of Starbucks orders has increased over time, and will keep increasing, as people try to use the crutch of control over their coffees to counteract the sense of chaos induced by the phones in their pockets; the feeling that our world is careening out of control, which in turn provokes the need to stay always connected, always informed, lest we miss the hour the barbarians actually arrive at the gate.
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Nor did anyone mind when he asked a (nonpregnant) woman if she might have an abortion this summer and then advised her to "do it while you still can, because you may not be able to have one in the future"; or when he wrote "you're using that cane as a crutch" to a reader with a limp; or when he said, "What happened to your mother — is she dead?" to a man named Richard, who wanted a book signed for his father.
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To date, the process questions have unfortunately been an effective crutch for those Republicans in Congress who would rather jam through a Supreme Court nominee accused of sexual assault than take the time to explore, through an FBI investigation and additional testimony of individuals like Mark Judge (who Ford says was in the room when Kavanaugh allegedly attacked her) whether an individual being nominated for a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land has the character to serve.
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The searing text in a review doesn't match the score, often falling between the 7-9 range; accepting advertisements from video game companies when you're pretending to be impartial is, at best, a bad look; critics tend to latch onto familiar (and shared) language as an expressive crutch; coverage of new games tends to produce the most traffic, resulting in a rush to write articles without enough time to really understand the experience you're talking about; the question of whether a reviewer needs to finish a game to have an opinion on it; how we determine the term "fun" in regards to quality.
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