throttle
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They played with such intensity in the second half against PSG that I wonder how much that has taken out of them, but they will want to keep their foot on the throttle.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
I swung the nose of the CrossWave toward shore and pinned the throttle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
The spool suit is the latest in a coordinated effort by California’s municipalities and the state attorney general’s office to throttle the bootleg gun industry by stanching the flow of its precursor components.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
"Hyperscalers had attracted much of that buying, while the supply chain remained one of the cleanest expressions of the belief that the AI capex machine would keep running at full throttle," he added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
He went into second gear, the engine spluttering and gasping, and he raced the engine, jamming the throttle down and snapping the choker in and out savagely.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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But Europe can ill afford to anger China in case it throttles supplies of rare earth minerals that are vital for the continent's industrial sector.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
A quick search of online marketplaces reveals all sorts of modifications on offer, often shipped from eastern Europe, including motorbike-style twist grip throttles which allow the rider to accelerate without pedalling.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Plus: AI build-out fuels warehouse demand; war throttles another chokepoint: the Black Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
But if an internet service provider throttles traffic in response to data caps, a VPN can’t stop that.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
They opened their throttles to full speed, and even then they were only just able to keep up.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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A senior Ukrainian official, who asked not to be named, told AFP on Wednesday that Starlink data communication speeds had been "throttled".
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
How else to explain those tech CEOs who usually can’t get enough change suddenly wanting it throttled?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Persian Gulf nations that throttled oil production will need time to restart operations and ships may wait to attempt passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Authorities throttled mobile internet ahead of the commemorations in an attempt to prevent Ukrainian drone strikes, while security around the capital was tightened considerably.
From Barron's ● May 9, 2026
As a result, ships built and manned in Spain itself were able to sail to the West Indies; there was nothing equivalent to the Greenland bottleneck that had throttled Norse colonization.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Shaheds fly at speeds in excess of 198mph, meaning SpaceX's throttling makes Ukrainian efforts to chase them down all but impossible.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The same thing is happening at Iran’s land borders with Turkey, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, dealing Tehran a self-inflicted blow and throttling trade through its few remaining economic release valves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Privacy A VPN’s raison d’être: encrypting your traffic to mask your internet browsing from your ISP and prevent it from throttling your connection.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
Meanwhile, Tehran has been slowly throttling well production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
He was white as the moon and shaking so hard it was as if some outside force were throttling him.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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