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In any event, the Maverick’s Normal mode drivability suffers from the overly elastic throttle at low speed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

For example, how they enter the corner, when they turn in, how they turn in, how they operate the throttle and brakes on corner entry and so on.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Class 2 includes a throttle, but is also capped at 20 miles per hour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

It defines how predictably and agreeably a car will swivel its hips, under braking and throttle, without spinning out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

The open box—filled with what looks like a fluffy plush puppy—rolls down the conveyor belt in a noisy toy factory operating at full throttle.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Plus: AI build-out fuels warehouse demand; war throttles another chokepoint: the Black Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

But if an internet service provider throttles traffic in response to data caps, a VPN can’t stop that.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

But in a repost and exchange with tech financier Paul Graham on Sunday, Musk admitted that his platform throttles posts with links in them.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2024

Still burdened with about 1,000 gallons of fire retardant, he shoved the throttles forward to squeeze more power from the howling engines and pulled back on the controls to start an agonizingly slow climb.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024

They opened their throttles to full speed, and even then they were only just able to keep up.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

No protest roadblocks remained standing in Bolivia on Tuesday, the government said, as it deployed the army to quell weeks-long demonstrations that had throttled roads nationwide.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Persian Gulf nations that throttled oil production will need time to restart operations and ships may wait to attempt passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

But that has been throttled since the war as Iran largely closed the strait, throwing global markets into turmoil and driving up oil prices.

From Barron's ● May 10, 2026

The government, sizing up an energy crisis as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz throttled Asia’s fuel supplies, wanted to know how quickly the firm could build more plants, Agrawal said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Fireplaces were throttled with vines that had descended from the roof and begun to spread across the floors like alien tentacles.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

The bill would also establish a graduated response framework, allowing regulators to impose measures based on the severity of a threat, including throttling a model’s capabilities, limiting access, suspending operations or ordering a complete shutdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Privacy A VPN’s raison d’être: encrypting your traffic to mask your internet browsing from your ISP and prevent it from throttling your connection.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

Anthropic has already been throttling back its usage limits for Claude.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026

On Friday, just two ships passed through the narrow waterway, which has seen traffic collapse, throttling shipments of everything from wheat and rice to oil and gas.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

It was not as though he was really surprised, thought Harry, as he wrestled with a thorny vine intent upon throttling him; he had had an inkling that this might happen sooner or later.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling