throttle
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Blue Planet II followed in 2017, and helped alert the world to "the crime of chucking plastic into the ocean that can throttle and poison creatures, including ourselves", Sir David told BBC News in 2019.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
But as the EV age dawned, helped by top-down policy such as generous subsidies, Chinese firms hit the throttle.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Around the same time, some tapes made headlines for their value, encouraging Renoir to go full throttle.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
O’Regan told MarketWatch that as AI “usage accelerates and agents proliferate,” overwhelming demand for tokens is putting pressure on AI companies to throttle back usage and may potentially even cause outages.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
And how could this terror throttle him like this when he didn’t even know what caused it?
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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