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If rates go high enough, it could even choke off the current economic expansion.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

The continued strikes threaten to choke off business travel and tourism just as the busy conference season begins, raising concerns among leaders that the conflict will damage the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

What has me in a choke hold right now is “Brilliant Sort.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The giant wad of cash splurged on all this would choke an elephant.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Sage laughed so hard when I said that that he started to choke on his own spit.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

It raises the cost of capital, delays investment and chokes off the very capacity needed to relieve bottlenecks.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026

Doctors must administer high doses of Eisai/Biogen’s Leqembi and Lilly’s Kisunla, because only a fraction of 1% of the infused antibodies reach the amyloid plaque that chokes brain cells in Alzheimer’s.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

She beams as she talks about the partner who "brought her spark back", but chokes down tears as she explains that in a few days Barry may be gone.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

Audiences who endured the Miramax era have been browbeaten to believe that the best picture Oscar should go to a period piece that chokes out a sob from audiences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

"Ser Barris-tan, escort my brother from the hall before he chokes."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

When we bought the place, I envisioned our children running wild in the backyard under the climbing wisteria, but the wisteria is invasive, and it ate away at our fence and choked the rhododendrons.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

In addition to the new levy, trading restrictions on Russian metal and the Iran War, which choked off Persian Gulf exports, have contributed to global price increases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The Saudi East-West pipeline had been a key alternative route for oil shipments from the kingdom while Hormuz was choked off.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Eddie Hearn choked up mid-sentence during the final news conference when it dawned on him this was the last time he would experience a Taylor fight week.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Doha choked a little on his words as he could feel the frightened tears he was so desperately suppressing.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

At first, these carefree interludes seem to be a welcome respite from “Queen at Sea’s” choking anxiety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Energy exports from the Gulf have plunged since US-Israeli strikes on Iran from February caused Tehran to respond by choking off the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for oil and gas transit.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

A lawsuit that accused an Orange County Board of Education trustee of choking and attacking a neighbor during a road rage incident has been dismissed, court records show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

All of these took a toll on the industry, but none of them proved as ruinous as citrus greening, a disease that clogs trees’ vascular systems, choking off water and nutrients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

A small choking sound came from deep inside of him; he ground his teeth together and stifled the noise.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros