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Any problem with someone who spends more than an hour assaulting law enforcement officers with pepper spray, a metal crutch and wooden and metal poles?
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Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
The organizations that thrive are the ones that use tools to support their teams, not as a crutch to mask inefficiencies or avoid hard work.
—Calvin Rasode, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2025
February 18, 2025 4 min read Using crutches for months is largely a thing of the past.
—Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2025
Bookshop landed at just the right time to provide something of a crutch for struggling bookstores and offer an alternative to funneling more money into Amazon’s maw.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 28 Jan. 2025
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Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
The organizations that thrive are the ones that use tools to support their teams, not as a crutch to mask inefficiencies or avoid hard work.
—Calvin Rasode, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2025
February 18, 2025 4 min read Using crutches for months is largely a thing of the past.
—Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2025
Bookshop landed at just the right time to provide something of a crutch for struggling bookstores and offer an alternative to funneling more money into Amazon’s maw.
—Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Crutch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crutch. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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