strangulation

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Smock had testified as an expert on strangulation as a witness for the prosecution in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

Today, the counterculture mix among the exhibition’s artists is mainstream — and certainly under threat of strangulation again.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

Thirty-six percent of those deaths were attributed to accidental suffocation or strangulation.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2023

Non-fatal strangulation became a stand-alone offence in Northern Ireland under the Justice, Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims Act 2022 in June.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2023

The startled sparrow shot downwards and stopped with a jerk, only thick neck feathers saving her from strangulation.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques