How to Use throttling in a Sentence

throttling

noun
  • On Tuesday afternoon, hours after this story was first published, X began reversing the throttling on some of the sites, dropping the delay times back to zero.
    Jeremy B. Merrill and Drew Harwell, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • This is true across the board, from very light tests like Geekbench (which rarely if ever runs for long enough to trigger much throttling) to heavier ones like Cinebench and Handbrake.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In such a case, performance throttling is to be expected.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But when Musk has reiterated that X / Twitter is a platform for free speech, any sort of throttling seems to fly in the face of that philosophy.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Coming off a 45-0 throttling of Kansas State at Farmageddon, the Cyclones look like an efficient machine on both sides of the football.
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 22 Nov. 2020
  • The same throttling also applied to Substack, the email newsletter platform that runs its own short-text service, Substack Notes.
    Jeremy B. Merrill and Drew Harwell, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Beyond the throttling from Moscow, the reactors are also proving to be critical in meeting the U.N.'s climate goals.
    Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • During the ten-day flight, the astronauts tested the craft's descent engine while coupled to the command module, lifting both spacecraft to a lofty 300-mile orbit and marking the first crewed throttling of an engine in space.
    Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2019
  • Europe has been hit by soaring natural gas and electricity prices as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its throttling of gas supplies.
    Inke Kappeler, CNN, 21 Sep. 2022
  • According to a statement released by the law office involved in the suit against Apple, the tech giant will soon have to pay out up to $500 million to customers affected by its throttling of iPhones that had older batteries.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
  • With a 76°C throttling temperature, running heavy loads for more than a few minutes will definitely see speeds reduce if your cooling isn't sufficient.
    Antony Leather, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • The city’s sidewalk throttling rule is arguably playing a role in the problem by prompting companies to deploy scooters that are the most technologically advanced — and at greatest risk of being stolen.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
  • European governments and energy executives say the throttling of gas is designed to hurt economies and undermine support for Ukraine.
    Joe Wallace, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Censorship, throttling of news sources, and measures forced upon American newspapers must not go beyond a certain limit.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Lime officials say the technology behind sidewalk throttling hasn’t advanced enough for it to be deployed widely by scooter companies, stressing that no other cities require it.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023

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