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Recent Examples of choke off
Unfortunately, reeds were allowed to choke off this stream.
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Steven Franck, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
While founders and top researchers cash out, investors and rank-and-file staff are often left stranded, sparking growing concern that these quasi-acquisitions not only skirt regulators but also threaten to choke off AI innovation at its source.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2025
Alarmed by the ambitions of Made in China 2025, the first Trump administration breathed life into some of the most moribund offices inside the Department of Commerce, summoning a powerful bureaucratic apparatus to choke off China’s access to critical materials.
—Dan Wang, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Xi’s ability the choke off western access to essential components has become the dominant topic of discussion during all three rounds of bilateral talks so far.
—Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
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Steven Franck, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
While founders and top researchers cash out, investors and rank-and-file staff are often left stranded, sparking growing concern that these quasi-acquisitions not only skirt regulators but also threaten to choke off AI innovation at its source.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2025
Alarmed by the ambitions of Made in China 2025, the first Trump administration breathed life into some of the most moribund offices inside the Department of Commerce, summoning a powerful bureaucratic apparatus to choke off China’s access to critical materials.
—Dan Wang, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Xi’s ability the choke off western access to essential components has become the dominant topic of discussion during all three rounds of bilateral talks so far.
—Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for choke off
Verb
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But this staredown came on the biggest stage of Toronto’s season, on a night when the pitcher turned back time.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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When do clocks turn back an hour in November?—
Chris Sims,
Louisville Courier Journal,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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For more severe cases, Orlando says procedures such as rubber band ligation (placing a small band around the base of an internal hemorrhoid to cut off its blood supply) and sclerotherapy (an injection that shrinks the hemorrhoid), may be recommended.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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Before entering the house, Rader climbed a fence and cut off the family's phone lines, per a CNN transcript from court.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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The Secret Commonwealth is the condemnation of a world where imagination—not making things up, but a way of seeing, understanding, feeling the world—is suppressed by the dual forces of cold rationality and religious fundamentalisms that breed authoritarianism.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
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That power is often used to unfairly influence elections through massive campaign donations, to interfere with independent journalism by buying media outlets, and to suppress competition in markets.—
Scott Ellis,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Choke off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/choke%20off. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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