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Higher mortgage rates will likely continue to choke the housing market.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

“I’ve got great reservations and deep doubts about the effect of the new plan to get rid of all parking and choke traffic down to one lane,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The new king appeared to choke back tears as he noted that Saturday would have been their 58th wedding anniversary.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Washington has spent the past decade working to secure choke points of the semiconductor industry: fabrication plants, lithography equipment, advanced packaging, critical minerals and the handful of companies that dominate each.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

I try to choke out an apology, but it feels weird trying to apologize to Jasmine in front of everyone, with her back turned to me.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

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

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

She warned against being so focused on avoiding 1970s-style inflation that the Fed chokes off a potential productivity boom similar to the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

Sounds did come out of her mouth, sobs, chokes, noises that were almost words.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

For several days this summer the Albanian city of Elbasan choked in a dense cloud of stinging smoke coming from the direction of its notorious steelworks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Yet his towering presence has choked off potential heirs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 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

This Emmy was a long time coming, and you could feel that when she choked up on stage accepting it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

The small creature nestled closer, and Neel choked out the words: “Please, Baba, please.”

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

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

Signs of sleep apnoea, a disorder that causes a person's breathing to repeatedly stop and start during sleep, include pauses in breathing, choking at night, waking frequently, and suffering from morning headaches.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Published research so far on anti-choking devices is based on case reports—which selectively report choking events—as well as studies on mannequins and cadavers, which don’t directly simulate a live human choking, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

"When the number finally arrived, it was larger than the original commitment but still too small to satisfy a market already choking on duration."

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

When Aru laughed, she sounded like she was choking on air.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi