strangleholds

plural of stranglehold

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for strangleholds
Noun
  • Current liabilities were reported at $5,898, while stockholders' equity was $22,494.
    Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 25 Mar. 2025
  • This divestiture included a cash payment of $1,350,000 and the assumption of related liabilities.
    Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For such states, already struggling to receive NIH funding, reducing indirect costs would further exacerbate their disadvantages, increasing the risk of falling behind in medical research, patient care and regional economic growth.
    Mitzi Nagarkatti, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025
  • According to an April 2024 study funded in part by the International Olympic Committee, trans women athletes may indeed have several physical disadvantages when competing with cisgender women.
    Abby Monteil, Them, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • There are some unavoidable drawbacks to its more limited memory, though.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
  • For all its fantastic qualities, film has other drawbacks, too.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • If Provorov follows that more-likely trajectory, there’s high potential for a Day 1 albatross deal.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • Patrick Reed made an albatross — only the fourth in the U.S. Open since it starting tracking such records in 1983 — by holing out from 286 yards on the par-5 fourth.
    Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • The federal act changed that and brought students with disabilities into the mainstream.
    James A. Kadamus, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Prior to 1975 schools had a limited obligation to educate students with disabilities.
    James A. Kadamus, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2025
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“Strangleholds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strangleholds. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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