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throttle

verb as in choke

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It has a foot brake, and a hand throttle on the left side, like a boat throttle.

This innovation goes back a ways, to Enzo Ferrari himself, who decreed that the power in his cars should always rise, linearly and proportionally, with throttle demand, from low revs to redline.

Starting next year, the restricted content option will be made available to throttle conversations teens can have with artificial intelligence tools, according to Meta.

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Banking in America is a barely profitable and highly fragile industry that may soon cease to exist if the government doesn’t introduce onerous rules that hurt consumers, throttle technology and deter competition.

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Adams said "constant media speculation" about his future and the city campaign finance board's decision to deny him public matching funds, throttled his campaign.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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