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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

The group aims to fight regulations they say will strangle AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Stagflation doesn’t have to strangle your stock portfolio.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 20, 2026

The fragrance of frangipani, honeysuckle, and jasmine grew heavy enough to strangle a man.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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

The searingly honest March 30 news article about the California drought, “In its third year, California’s drought strangles farming,” painted a brutal and accurate portrait of what’s happening to farmers and farm communities.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022

“I need to get out of this place before it strangles me,” says one of Volpe’s students, a girl ranked fifth academically in the senior class.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

The U.S. submarine campaign against Japan offers another comparison: It strangled Tokyo’s economy and war effort by destroying the shipping that carried fuel, food and raw materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

But the fuel blockade is hurting business, strangled by power cuts of up to 30 hours at a time, and fuel prices of up to $8 a liter.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 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

There was a sort of strangled gasp, a geyser of water, and then a bout of choking coughs.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

But Xi must be concerned about the very real possibility of a global recession stemming from Iran’s continued strangling of shipping through the Strait.

From Salon ● May 14, 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

It has balanced the budget, improved government aid to the poor by removing political middlemen, and cut a tangle of red tape that was strangling business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

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

From BBC ● May 14, 2025

Evan tensed up his fingers as if he were strangling an invisible ghost.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies