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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
kneecap .
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Examples
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A witness told the task force that the elephant appeared to have been "kneecapped" in the first bursts of fire after it crushed an unoccupied telephone booth.
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Any cellphone over $49 is "kneecapped" and will look like either it costs too much to make or that the carrier is asking too high a price, Entner says.
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I do learn that the "do less" or "do no harm" Geithner-Emanuel alliance â¨regularly kneecapped a Romer-Summers "do something" alliance--perhaps â¨because Summers' and Romer's small CEA and NEC staffs could only come up â¨with outlines and proposals rather than plans--which only the Treasury with â¨its ample staff could produce--and, as Geithner liked to say, "plan beats no â¨plan".
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Obama has kneecapped the US both domestically and internationally.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » News So Absurd There Is Almost No Point In Commenting On It
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I do learn that the "do less" or "do no harm" Geithner-Emanuel alliance â¨regularly kneecapped a Romer-Summers "do something" alliance--perhaps â¨because Summers' and Romer's small CEA and NEC staffs could only come up â¨with outlines and proposals rather than plans--which only the Treasury with â¨its ample staff could produce--and, as Geithner liked to say, "plan beats no â¨plan".
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Such a PM might emerge, but if she tried to take a big gamble on a peace deal, she would be immediately kneecapped as her coalition disintegrated.
Matthew Yglesias » Israel: What a Center-Right Nation Looks Like
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And just what will happen when a studio's major theatrical release gets kneecapped because everyone is staying at home watching their previous theatrical release from 60 days ago?
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Resistance from regime hard-liners kneecapped his efforts to reform the Libyan economy, and he reportedly tried to resign as head of economic planning on several occasions before leaving in early 2010.
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And just what will happen when a studio's major theatrical release gets kneecapped because everyone is staying at home watching their previous theatrical release from 60 days ago?
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Progressives who took a strong stand on this bill got kneecapped by their own party leadership.
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