choke
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The giant wad of cash splurged on all this would choke an elephant.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Now a new choke point has emerged in part of the industry that policymakers have barely considered: the instruction set architecture, or ISA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
If you miss your monthly payment to Amazon Oxygen, will you choke to death?
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
They just want to rally together for the final time to choke out one last laugh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Poe laughs midsip of his milk shake, but he sputters and begins to choke.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
A lifelong Parton fan, Hadley chokes up while detailing how she was at work when a friend texted to say the singer had died.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
It raises the cost of capital, delays investment and chokes off the very capacity needed to relieve bottlenecks.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 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
“We thank you, Señor, for these gifts,” Tío Carlos begins, but he chokes up.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
The impact has been felt as far as the US Midwest, where smoke had choked the air in cities.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
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
But if you revisit interviews Donald did after retiring, you’ll notice how often and how quickly he’d get choked up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
“Beefy,” choked out Seven before breaking into a run.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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
The deadly European heatwave was forecast to shift east on Friday, choking 150 million people with temperatures of 35C.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Her first symptom was choking “badly” on some water in December 2024, then she had migraines and problems swallowing pills.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 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
Great gouts of smoke filled the air, acrid and choking.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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