choke

Hundreds of actors and directors have signed a letter opposing the merger, warning it would choke production in an industry already battered by years of consolidation and cost-cutting.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

They just want to rally together for the final time to choke out one last laugh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

“But we pensioners, we survive. They choke and choke us, but we survive.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

"If I didn't have a bottle of water in my hand, I couldn't swallow and I would choke on my own saliva," he explained.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

Hearing kids stumble and choke their way through it a dozen times makes it into so much ear-cracking noise after a while.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye

Swap out your air filter: A clogged filter chokes airflow, forcing your AC to guzzle more power to do the same job.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

Doctors must administer high doses of Eisai/Biogen’s Leqembi and Lilly’s Kisunla, because only a fraction of 1% of the infused antibodies reach the amyloid plaque that chokes brain cells in Alzheimer’s.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

Mr. Salam chokes up as he remembers his father: “He drove a livery cab, and then he was a bookkeeper. He did all these different jobs.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

The flea-sized psyllid bites the leaves and transmits the disease, which slowly chokes out the tree’s vascular system from the inside, taking years to finally show itself.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

I walk up the stairs with Christina, and the crowd chokes me.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

But the good news, or the kind-of good news, or the “why in God’s name did this take so long” news, is that Infantino has finally choked on an overdose of hubris.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

“I watched him have three seizures. That ICE agent could have choked on his tongue had I not been there.”

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Another customer got choked up looking at the debris of the business Sunday evening as she told ABC7 how the owner had been there for her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Central Mayor Ken Dill said some residents were too choked up to speak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Hidden, that is, until the software called it into memory—and choked.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

But between parasitic infections and the wildfire smoke that’s currently choking U.S. cities, maybe you’d prefer to spend much of this weekend inside.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Our ride safety policy strictly prohibits all loose articles on rides, including food which can become a choking hazard,” the spokesperson continued.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

It gradually got worse and after waking up in the middle of the night choking and throwing up he said he knew "there was something badly wrong".

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

On the other hand, hiking more aggressively to control costs and protect the yen and comes at the risk of choking off economic growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Underwater, he screamed; and then he was above the surface, and choking, and calling Mal’s name.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell