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The threshold at which higher borrowing costs truly choke off growth remains an open question.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Over the past few days, worries that rising interest rates could choke off AI spending have sent investors into defensive stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

What has me in a choke hold right now is “Brilliant Sort.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The giant wad of cash splurged on all this would choke an elephant.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Just as the burning smell began to choke her, a cold, clean wind blew.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

Fifoot says that, at the beginning of the cooling process, this spiral "chokes" the flow of solidifying crystals so that just one takes over.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

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

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

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

When we bought the place, I envisioned our children running wild in the backyard under the climbing wisteria, but the wisteria is invasive, and it ate away at our fence and choked the rhododendrons.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

During his speech Tuesday, Burnham visibly choked up when talking about his late father, who died earlier this month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Saudi East-West pipeline had been a key alternative route for oil shipments from the kingdom while Hormuz was choked off.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Eddie Hearn choked up mid-sentence during the final news conference when it dawned on him this was the last time he would experience a Taylor fight week.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

“How did you—” I started, but my words were choked, and I bent over, hacking hard as the smoke tightened in my lungs.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Energy exports from the Gulf have plunged since US-Israeli strikes on Iran from February caused Tehran to respond by choking off the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for oil and gas transit.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

A lawsuit that accused an Orange County Board of Education trustee of choking and attacking a neighbor during a road rage incident has been dismissed, court records show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

He has been at the camp ever since but suddenly, as we were talking, the sadness of what is happening to his country overwhelmed him and he turned his head away, choking back tears.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

All of these took a toll on the industry, but none of them proved as ruinous as citrus greening, a disease that clogs trees’ vascular systems, choking off water and nutrients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The scent of sulfur became acrid and choking.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros