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Recent Examples of choke off
Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, vowed retaliation Thursday against the United States and Israel and signaled that Tehran will continue to choke off the world’s most critical oil route.
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Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Cuba’s energy crisis No oil tankers have arrived in Cuba for three months, Diaz-Canel said, after the United States’ move to choke off the island’s oil supply as a way to pressure its government to undergo significant reforms.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
Iran’s leaders have repeatedly threatened to intervene more forcefully to choke off oil supplies; regime change there could have a similar outcome, if the resulting internal turmoil disrupts production.
—Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 19 Feb. 2026
Tehran has threatened to shut down the strait to commercial shipping if it is attacked in the past, a move that would choke off a fifth of global oil flows and drive up crude prices.
—Max Burman, NBC news, 17 Feb. 2026
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Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Cuba’s energy crisis No oil tankers have arrived in Cuba for three months, Diaz-Canel said, after the United States’ move to choke off the island’s oil supply as a way to pressure its government to undergo significant reforms.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
Iran’s leaders have repeatedly threatened to intervene more forcefully to choke off oil supplies; regime change there could have a similar outcome, if the resulting internal turmoil disrupts production.
—Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 19 Feb. 2026
Tehran has threatened to shut down the strait to commercial shipping if it is attacked in the past, a move that would choke off a fifth of global oil flows and drive up crude prices.
—Max Burman, NBC news, 17 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for choke off
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Bernhard’s barely contained incestuous desires (The Loser is only one of a suite of works about brother-sister love and hate, alongside Correction, The Lime Works, and Concrete) are the product of individual psychologies run amok and turned back on themselves, the offshoots of artistic monomania.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Al Otro Lado, HIAS and other groups who provided assistance to the asylum seekers who were turned back at the border argued this case is about much more than the narrow legal definition of a few words.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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Erie, for example, is one of the communities currently threatening to cut off water access to residents who are overusing water at this time.—
Dillon Thomas,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Since then and as a result of the conflict, the market is pricing in higher inflation and has taken the June rate cut off the table.—
Todd Gordon,
CNBC,
24 Mar. 2026
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Although Nigeria was temporarily suspended from the Commonwealth group of nations, the oil industry continued its operations, and federal governments continued to misappropriate their share of the revenues and violently suppress protests.—
Noo Saro-Wiwa,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
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This structural scaling suppressed unwanted charge trapping and leakage currents, ensuring the chip remains electronically stable even under intense, high-dose gamma exposure.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Choke off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/choke%20off. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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