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Recent Examples of choke off
For example, government credit cards issued to civilian employees at the Pentagon were altered to have a $1 limit, choking off their ability to travel for work.
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Chris Megerian, Twin Cities, 7 Mar. 2025
But its global phone sales plunged after Trump choked off its access to critical technologies like semiconductor chips in 2019.
—John Liu, CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
The Houthis have choked off shipping in one of the most important Waterways of the World, grinding vast swaths of Global Commerce to a halt, and attacking the core principle of Freedom of Navigation upon which International Trade and Commerce depends.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
The Prosperity Order’s institution of agency regulatory budgets addresses the overregulation problem by seeking directly to choke off regulatory excesses agency-by-agency.
—Alden Abbott, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
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Chris Megerian, Twin Cities, 7 Mar. 2025
But its global phone sales plunged after Trump choked off its access to critical technologies like semiconductor chips in 2019.
—John Liu, CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
The Houthis have choked off shipping in one of the most important Waterways of the World, grinding vast swaths of Global Commerce to a halt, and attacking the core principle of Freedom of Navigation upon which International Trade and Commerce depends.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
The Prosperity Order’s institution of agency regulatory budgets addresses the overregulation problem by seeking directly to choke off regulatory excesses agency-by-agency.
—Alden Abbott, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for choke off
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Fred Couples turned back the clock Thursday but couldn’t quite recreate that magic Friday (still timeless!).—
Sam Settleman,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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President Trump’s tariff plan appears determined to turn back the clock, and nowhere does his plan defy common sense more than with those same spices that Marco Polo and countless others in the ancient world journeyed for years to bring to the world.—
Hank Tucker,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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The witness told investigators that Griffin swerved to cut off Francis, court documents read, at which point Francis pulled up beside the of the green Sierra and allegedly fired four to five shots into the truck through the front window on the drivers’ side.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
10 Apr. 2025
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Italy has halted talks on a potential $1.5 billion deal for secure government communications amid outrage over threats to cut off Ukraine’s access to Starlink.—
Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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To tell the Blue Devils, basically, not to suppress their emotions.—
Brendan Marks,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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The new, later Equal Pay Day marks a troubling reminder of how systemic barriers—ranging from occupational segregation to discrimination in hiring and promotion—continue to suppress the earning power of Black women.—
Jasmine Browley,
Essence,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Choke off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/choke%20off. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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