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
  • Many advanced driver-assistance systems, or ADAS, can control a vehicle’s speed, braking and steering using cameras, sensors and/or mapping data.
    Michael Wayland, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Still, everything happened so fast that police could not find skid marks indicating that Lopez braked hard to avoid her.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 6 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
  • At the time, Valli’s rep told Variety in a statement that the musician decided to cancel the shows instead of rescheduling them so that his fans with tickets would not be stuck in limbo.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Stickers are stuck in the wrong spot, Trevor Etienne gets put on the board when it was meant to be his brother Travis, and owners look frantically for a Stefon Diggs or Keenan Allen sticker that doesn’t exist in the pack.
    Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Monday’s win showed signs of another upward swing to halt what’s been an ugly skid.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Republican Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland applauded Commissioner Scott’s decision to halt construction.
    Laura Romero, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Brent has climbed by about $10 a barrel from the lows seen in early August as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict stalled.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
  • That claim was rebuffed by Iran, as negotiations with Tehran to open the crucial appear to have been stalled.
    Justina Lee, CNBC, 17 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
  • Many people struggled to determine how much liquid to add to dissolve the powder and the correct dose to draw up once it was dissolved.
    C. Michael White, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The plans for a new facility have been drawn up and hospital leaders are confident construction will be wrapped by the deadline.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

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“Chock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chock. Accessed 18 Aug. 2026.

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