throttle
Example Sentences
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“Our job is to ensure that, and so we’re keeping our hand on that throttle.”
From Los Angeles Times
Canada’s housing market is mired in a slump, with both sales and prices dropping, and economists say higher mortgage rates threaten to throttle activity further.
Wartime delays have throttled the vital flow of satellite imagery, while widespread signal interference in the Middle East has left the cottage industry of tanker tracking partially in the dark.
That supply has been throttled by the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The last time Amazon moved its Prime Days up to June was in 2021, after fallout from the coronavirus pandemic throttled international shipping.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
