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stranglehold

[strang-guhl-hohld] / ˈstræŋ gəlˌhoʊld /
NOUN
choke
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Producers can ease the stranglehold on Hormuz with workarounds, but “it has not been enough to render Iran’s veto irrelevant,” said Eric Alter, the dean of the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

For anyone who cares about video games as art and has bemoaned the ever-tightening corporate stranglehold over visual entertainment and its archives, Sony’s disc phaseout is an earth-shattering quake that’s not to be taken lightly.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

Lewin insists that he approve even routine payments, creating a stranglehold on funding and information.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

The purpose of the Bradley coalition, Sonenshein said, was to “break open the stranglehold of a city establishment that was ... unresponsive to the diversity of the community.”

From Los Angeles Times May 31, 2026

He had new ideas about how to break the stranglehold of slavery and refused to give up his guns.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead



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