throttle
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The film has a propulsive rhythm to it, a relentlessness, even as Wilde and editors Yorgos Mavropsaridis and Anthony Boys know when to ease off the throttle and take it easy for a bit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
VPNs encrypt traffic, making it difficult for internet service providers to detect and throttle specific activities, such as streaming.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
"Whereas if England are two nil up, we might just go full throttle with England songs and enjoy ourselves."
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
This strategy adds momentum and value factors to a growth-oriented index strategy, while “you might throttle back a bit on valuations that get high,” Kalivas said.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
Couldn’t he see that being cooped up with Grandma when she was going full throttle was driving me to the brink of insanity?
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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But if an internet service provider throttles traffic in response to data caps, a VPN can’t stop that.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
“You never know what the body throttles back,” Treinen said earlier in camp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026
The short-term impact of opening the fiscal, monetary and credit throttles is easy to predict: rapid growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
While the team has yet to create a fully untethered model -- Aubin says they are halfway there -- the current iteration "absolutely throttles the competition, in terms of their force output."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023
They opened their throttles to full speed, and even then they were only just able to keep up.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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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
Authorities throttled mobile internet ahead of the commemorations in an attempt to prevent Ukrainian drone strikes, while security around the capital was tightened considerably.
From Barron's ● May 9, 2026
Before the war throttled shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Kumar’s family could count on getting the 30-pound cylinder from a government-approved gas agency for around $10.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
The pilots throttled back the engines and all nine helicopters landed safely on the great yellow wasteland.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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Train wi-fi performed well just 1% of the time, with train companies criticised for using outdated technology and throttling internet speeds too much.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
The company has faced a computing power crunch that has led to outages, throttling and slower performance for its Claude AI model.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
He’s also noted that open-source large language models with capabilities catching up to leading models may “offset” usage throttling.
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
He was white as the moon and shaking so hard it was as if some outside force were throttling him.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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