chocking

present participle of chock

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Verb
  • Strong, random gusts of wind caught out plenty, suddenly changing grip levels and even braking points and littering the track with leaves and branches.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • During 600 miles of testing, vehicles with the CCM software endured 85% fewer hard-braking incidents and spent 70% less time stopped in traffic.
    Stuart Dyos, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Diggs did play in the game and made a crucial defensive play late in the second half, reading a Packers screen in the red zone and forcing Green Bay behind the sticks, stalling its momentum.
    Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That doesn’t mean the technology is stalling because automakers will continue to roll out advanced driver-assistance technology on more and more vehicles.
    Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But sticking it out ended up being beneficial, because those classmates who laughed at his antics became his first audience.
    Essence, Essence, 2 Oct. 2025
  • China has landed on the Red Planet once, sticking the landing on its first attempt in 2021, setting the Zhurong rover down successfully in southern Utopia Planitia as part of the Tianwen 1 mission.
    Andrew Jones, Space.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The year Goldberg-Polin and her family arrived in Israel, the country launched Operation Cast Lead, a massive military operation aimed at halting intensifying Hamas mortar, missile and rocket fire terrorizing southern Israeli communities.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Attorneys for the Justice Department argued that halting the reallocations could delay distributing the funds to other states DHS had identified as higher priority under its new approach.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Across town, the Elk River could surround CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital, cutting off all exits.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement In filmmaker Tobe Hooper's slasher classic, chainsaw-wielding Leatherface's penchant for cutting off his victims' faces and wearing them as masks was apparently inspired by Gein's own macabre habits.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The video concludes with the music, blending heritage and innovation into one visually arresting finale.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
  • When the photographer Mary Ellen Mark arrived in New York City, in 1966, one of her strategies for finding arresting images was to attend parades and other large gatherings, seeking out subjects not in the main flow of the action but on the periphery.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Investigators said the massive scale of electronics was poised to potentially collapse cellular service throughout New York City by jamming phone lines, 911 calls and other methods of communication in an apparent effort to sow chaos throughout the area.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Back in 2022, wife Emma Heming Willis shared a cool video of the actor jamming with Derrick Richard Thomas in their home.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The beginning of a solution, Zionism’s dismantling, requires a more granular understanding of its founding logic.
    Book Marks October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This is a sister organization to the Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025—a sweeping conservative policy blueprint aimed at reshaping the federal government by expanding presidential power, dismantling parts of the civil service, and rolling back regulations across agencies.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Chocking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chocking. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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