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or garotted
as in strangled
to keep (someone) from breathing by exerting pressure on the windpipe
the goons sent by the loan shark threatened to garrote the hero with his own necktie
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At that point, HBM’s killer feature of extreme local bandwidth gets strangled by the comparatively slow links connecting all of these machines.—
Sha Rabii,
Fortune,
19 Mar. 2026 -
Shirley allegedly admitted to entering the home, but said his friend was the one who strangled the girl, according to court documents.—
Robert A. Cronkleton
March 17,
Kansas City Star,
17 Mar. 2026
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Such an outcome could slash oil prices, flooding the market with supply currently choked by military threats in the Strait of Hormuz.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
25 Mar. 2026
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As ProPublica detailed earlier this year, Bazan was tackled and choked by immigration agents who were chasing his undocumented father in Houston.—
Nicole Foy,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Garroted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garroted. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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