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For weeks, automakers and suppliers have publicly sounded an optimistic tone, pointing to the industry’s lessons from a semiconductor crisis a few years ago that kneecapped production around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

In the decade and a half before the GCA kneecapped his war-surplus business, Cummings imported some 5 million firearms for distribution on the U.S. consumer market.

From Slate • May 25, 2025

But her production lines were being constantly kneecapped by the start-stop of the grid.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2025

The Delta wave kneecapped any sense that COVID-19 was behind us.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2021

Murray kneecapped the neighborhood community council and district council system in 2016, creating instead a Citizens Involvement Commission.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021