chock

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Recent Examples of chock Part of this could be chocked up to the decline in Amazon’s marketing budget. Erik Kain, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024 Joe Skipper | Reuters Falcon 9 has been on an unrivaled run of success for nearly a decade, chocking up more than 300 consecutive successful orbital launches since its previous inflight failure in June 2015, during the NASA cargo mission CRS-7. Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 12 July 2024 Well, the top of the first round is expected to chock full of SEC players with perhaps as many as half of their first 10 picks coming from college’s premier conference. Evan Grant, Dallas News, 27 June 2023 Drury chocked up the low ticket prices on the secondary market to low expectations for the Red Sox season — Drury himself is frustrated with the team’s offseason moves, or lack thereof — or the chilly weather. Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023 See All Example Sentences for chock
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chock
Verb
  • Be sure to stay alert, and give yourself plenty of braking distance.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • As the veteran approached a braking zone, the rear of his car stepped out and hit the wall, which ultimately left him stranded in the run-off area just ten minutes into the session.
    Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Bridges on the Big Island were washed away, and several communities have been entirely cut off from the rest of the island.
    Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The county’s Flock cameras soon went dark, cutting off Dane County data from the 140 other law enforcement agencies that had once accessed it.
    Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • For the past few years, Florida’s housing market has been stuck in a strange kind of standoff.
    Justin Onorato, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Symptoms include eye pain, a sensation of something being stuck in the eye, watering, light sensitivity, redness, irritation and blurred or clouded vision.
    Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 23 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Judges in those cases could make decisions in the coming weeks that could potentially halt the projects across the Big Bend region while the lawsuits play out.
    Ashley Killough, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The legislative proposal follows Abbott’s January directive to state agencies and public universities and colleges to halt new H-1B visas.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • More news Endangered mountain lions are stalling a plan to build 400 residences on Woodland Hills golf course.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Braxton Jones started and was flagged for a holding penalty on the first series, which ultimately stalled the drive.
    Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Ministry spokesman Sun Li-fang said NCSIST had already verified jamming capabilities for the newer frequency and would introduce them through future upgrades.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2026
  • But Russia is also building its own version of Starlink, and is installing jamming systems that hamper Starlink connectivity, Brovdi said.
    Emma Burrows, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Gajdusek eventually drew up a list of eight students, and then decided on the youngest child, a twelve-year-old boy.
    Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The school’s leadership quickly agreed the bulk of the Snap windfall would go into the endowment and a dedicated pool was drawn up to fund retention bonuses for teachers.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026

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“Chock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chock. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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