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Recent Examples of choke off
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.
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
Sanctions designed to choke off Russian oil exports, for instance, would increase energy prices, at least in the short term.
—Edward Fishman, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2022
But rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court since 2004 had choked off such lawsuits in cases involving foreign parties, which often have little link to the U.S., Brunk said.
—Greg McKenna, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
That a short-term judgment about what the market will bear can choke off a literary legacy and, to some extent, impoverish a culture.
—Mark Athitakis, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
Sanctions designed to choke off Russian oil exports, for instance, would increase energy prices, at least in the short term.
—Edward Fishman, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2022
But rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court since 2004 had choked off such lawsuits in cases involving foreign parties, which often have little link to the U.S., Brunk said.
—Greg McKenna, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
That a short-term judgment about what the market will bear can choke off a literary legacy and, to some extent, impoverish a culture.
—Mark Athitakis, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for choke off
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In White House comments, President Joe Biden said the deal would allow his Middle East team to turn back to securing an elusive ceasefire deal in Gaza.Howard LaFranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024
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Kobayashi’s phone’s was last turned on at LAX on Nov. 11 at 4 p.m. and hasn’t been turned back on since.Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
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Mangione had cut off contact with family and friends for six months prior to the killing, and his mother filed a missing person report with the San Francisco Police Department in November.Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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The deal permitted it to keep doing business with Medicare, despite a law mandating that criminal pharma firms be cut off.Bob Fernandez, ProPublica, 17 Dec. 2024
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His beautiful, distant mother, played by the French-Argentinean actress Bérénice Bejo, treats these outbursts as insurrections to be suppressed.Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
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Harry is doing his best to keep Dexter from killing people, though Dex acknowledges that slicing into cadavers and taking hunting trips aren’t really cutting it in terms of suppressing his urges.Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Choke off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/choke%20off. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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