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crutch

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as in prop

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Recent Examples of crutch The core leadership question becomes whether AI functions as a crutch or a collaborator. — Khadim Batti, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 In the three interviews Kersanava conducted with AI avatar applicants, the candidates had applied for English-speaking roles as non-native speakers, leaning on AI as a crutch for a lack of language proficiency. — Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Pointing with his crutch, Boisvert showed the Canadian border post he's now supposed to check in with before walking across the street. — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 29 July 2026 The workers who are going to come out ahead are the ones who learn to use AI as a partner, not a crutch. — Dan Schawbel, CNBC, 6 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for crutch

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Topstep, a futures prop-trading firm, disclosed in March that roughly 17% of evaluations started in 2025 were successfully completed.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026
Those range from the macro-industrial such as aircraft parts and underwater pipelines to the micro-medical such as stents that prop open bodily channels for bodily fluids.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2026

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There was a procession to the church of white clad handmaidens (tärnor), star boys (stjärngossar) and gingerbread men (pepparkaksgubbar) with candle wreaths on the maidens’ heads – now battery powered rather than actual flames.

— Natasha Langan, TheWeek, 29 Sep. 2026
Did Penelope, Helen of Troy, Athena, Calypso, and the rest of the Greek gals and goddesses deserve to be more epic than the attractive but flattened handmaidens even IMAX couldn’t enhance?

— Lisa Henricksson, Air Mail, 8 Aug. 2026

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