Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chocked
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Someone with a deep connection to Texas A&M University may be able to put aside their bias and give the University of Texas a fair trial, the judge noted a couple of times in the echoey downtown Fort Worth courtroom jammed with nine defendants.—
Emerson Clarridge
Updated February 17,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Feb. 2026 -
This stellar density is found at the heart of galaxies, but there are also non-central regions of galaxies in which stars are also jammed together tightly.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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While hope remains for that project (more on that shortly), the sting felt more painful after Judith Hoag, cinema's first live-action April O'Neil, said she'd been approached about reprising her role before the movie stalled.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Feb. 2026
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Some stalled due to internal political disagreements.—
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CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026
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Like that film and the rest of her oeuvre, her latest is another tender tale of a protagonist stuck between two worlds, a hallmark motif fitting for a director who splits her time between documentary and fiction filmmaking.—
Lé Baltar,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2026
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The rescue took place in the area of Branford Point where crews responded on the report of a goose possibly in distress and stuck in the ice, according to the Branford Professional Firefighters IAFF 2533.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
17 Feb. 2026
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Two people were arrested after refusing to stop and leading Fort Worth police on a pursuit on Saturday afternoon.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Feb. 2026
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Days ago, he was arrested and held in custody for nearly 11 hours on suspicion of misconduct in having shared confidential trade information with Epstein.—
Michael R. Sisak,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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Federal agencies halted overdose-surveillance networks, delayed youth smoking data, scaled back food-safety pathogen monitoring and purged transgender health information from websites.—
Mike Stobbe,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Lumley said the progress of the bill halted in 2025 due to conflicts with some of the agricultural groups in the state.—
Cami Koons,
Iowa Capital Dispatch,
17 Feb. 2026
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Washington has upped pressure in a bid to replace Havana’s communist regime, cutting off oil shipments and, by extension, the economy.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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First responders cut off her camo shorts to care for her that day, and a photo of the shorts was shown in court.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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Concerns over the high line have been there on many occasions since the German took over, but no team has dismantled the Catalans like Simeone’s Atletico did on Thursday night.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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All that stuff seems to have been dismantled for various reasons.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2026
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The Waymo Driver braked hard, reducing speed from approximately 17 mph to under 6 mph before contact was made.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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The vehicle detected the child and braked hard.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Chocked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chocked. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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