stranglehold
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It was Pacheco’s relationship with Southern Pacific, the massive railroad with a stranglehold on California’s economy and politics, that banged up his shield.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Antonelli's eighth win in 14 races this year puts an even tighter stranglehold on the championship for the Italian.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
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
He laughed quietly, and gently unloosened my stranglehold on his neck.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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