strangle
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To help overcome the not-insignificant expense of buying a strangle, we chose a short expiration that reduces the amount of time premium embedded in the options.
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
The choice of mediocre investments can strangle the flow of endowment money to pay for yet more administrators.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026
The new models come just after the expiration of a $7,500 tax credit for new electric vehicles, which is expected to strangle growth at EV makers this month and going forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
I thought I might strangle on the words.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
All items in the table should be checked just before the earnings are announced, for that would be the time to buy the straddles or strangles if they do satisfy the “needed” requirement.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
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
He said that this would require regulation which fosters AI development "rather than strangles it".
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025
This blocking of competition drives up prices for merchants and consumers, harms security and strangles innovation.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
“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 showed that a country can be strangled by attacking its logistics and supply lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
Fig released a strangled whimper and scuttled to the back of the carrier, then crouched into a tight ball.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
The high-profile US murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, a woman who says she suffered from postpartum psychosis before strangling her three young children, has sparked a debate in the United States over maternal mental health.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 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 the despair strangling Romania is not too distant from that place either regardless of how forward-looking it may be.
From Salon ● May 13, 2024
He accused the council of "weaponising" legal planning agreements and "strangling the business cash flow" by blocking the sale of completed homes.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024
Suffice it to say we got to Mars 124 days later without strangling each other.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
