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The phrase "crippling blow" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant and debilitating setback or obstacle that significantly impacts or hinders someone or something. Example: The economic recession dealt a crippling blow to small businesses, forcing many to close their doors permanently.
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The 2004 tsunami dealt the struggling nation another crippling blow.
Arguably, there's no crippling blow or even a bite here.
This was a crippling blow to Spanish Islam.
Even he has claimed that relegation would not be "a crippling blow".
Alliance officials insist the assassination will be a rallying point, not a crippling blow.
Then, all of a sudden, the husband-and-wife team suffered a potentially crippling blow.
Neither suffered a crippling blow nor were the "neighbourhoods along the Philadelphi road" secured.
His death, if true, would be a crippling blow to Al Qaeda.
It is a crippling blow that leaves us with a range of scandalously dull secondary characters.
Doesn't destroying the tenability of air travel deal western civilisation a truly crippling blow?
He weathered the champion's fiercest onslaughts, only to suffer his most crippling blow outside the ropes.
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