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With the Iran war continuing to strangle Middle East oil supplies, public transit agencies looking to add passengers might expect high gas prices to incentivize people to ride the rails more than ever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

The strangle costs about $13.15, but of course, the actual cost of the trade is multiplied by 100, which each options contract represents.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

In fact, the straddle or strangle buy here is worth looking at.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026

The goal "is not to dominate China; nor is it to strangle or humiliate them", the document says.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

I did not dare try to give him water from a glass, for fear he might strangle.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

As the war in Iran strangles the flow of oil around the globe, California’s jet fuel reservoirs are running low.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

In either case, the straddles or strangles are selling for prices that are attractive for a five-month time horizon on what has become a pretty volatile stock.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026

This blocking of competition drives up prices for merchants and consumers, harms security and strangles innovation.”

From Washington Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

He could have added: until, finally, it strangles us.

From Washington Post ● May 1, 2022

She strangles the mike with both hands and squeezes her eyes shut.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

In the past 250 years, a nation once so fragile that it might have been strangled in its cradle has risen above all its major competitors and established itself as the world’s pre-eminent power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

"We see the island of Cuba being strangled," said the musician, wearing sunglasses next to bandmates Moglai Bap and DJ Provai, the latter wearing a balaclava in the colors of the Irish flag.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

The conflict with Iran has strangled movement through the Persian Gulf and catapulted the price of a barrel of oil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

The war has strangled shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a U-bend-like chokepoint off the Iranian coast that acts as a highway for more than a third of the world’s oceangoing oil exports each year.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

Later, the four boys had stopped playing War and had gone inside when Ugwu heard the thin, strangled wail from the classroom at the end of the building.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“It’s strangling the city,” said Paul Rickard, CEO of property developer Pocket Living.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Lula's new plan aims to focus on financially strangling criminal factions, disrupting money laundering and cracking down on illicit markets that supply these groups, such as arms trafficking.

From Barron's ● May 12, 2026

But dismantling the vast web of sanctions now strangling Syria will take time.

From BBC ● May 14, 2025

Since her diagnosis, the 56-year-old singer has put performances on hold and explained that the incurable disorder has made it feel like “somebody’s strangling you” when she attempts to sing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024

There are times the secrets feel like strangling vines.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez