choke off

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Recent Examples of choke off Tens of thousands of longshoremen went on strike at midnight ET, shutting down major ports along the East and Gulf coasts and choking off deliveries of everything from produce to auto parts. Mike Calia, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2024 Dry, dusty air and cooler ocean temperatures here, off the continent’s northwest coast, have combined to choke off storms. Mary Gilbert, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024 World & Nation Bolivian president orchestrated a ‘self-coup,’ political rival claims July 1, 2024 The roadblocks and mass vigils have choked off major cities and disrupted food and fuel supplies, exacerbating the country’s rolling economic crisis. Carlos Valdez and Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024 India has surged to become the second-biggest supplier of restricted critical technologies to Russia, US and European officials said, highlighting the challenge in efforts to choke off exports fueling President Vladimir Putin’s war machine. Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for choke off 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for choke off
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  • Since 2000, Minnesota has won nine-plus games in consecutive seasons exactly once — when the Tarvaris Jackson/Gus Frerotte tag team won 10 games in 2008, and Brett Favre turned back the clock in 2009.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 17 Jan. 2025
  • This was when, fearing for their own daughter, Samir’s parents decided to turn back.
    Jazzmin Jiwa, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • TikTok and content creators on the app argued the ban violates their First Amendment rights by cutting off all speech on the platform, while the federal government argued the ban is necessary for national security, given ByteDance’s Chinese ownership.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Kira Weibel was in eighth grade when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the student’s Altadena charter school, cutting off critical community connections.
    Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • Facebook played a major role in the 2020 election and came under fire from Trump and Republicans for allegedly suppressing conservative voices.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Some Korean veterans of that war were also involved in suppressing uprisings such as the one in Gwangju.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025

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“Choke off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/choke%20off. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.

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