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have been strangling
  • present perfect progressive of strangle.

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The Financial Times’s Cairo correspondent, Heba Saleh, explains why that matters: Falling foreign currency inflows have been strangling businesses and threatening imports of basic necessities including medicines.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2016

The Financial Times’s Cairo correspondent, Heba Saleh, explains why that matters: Falling foreign currency inflows have been strangling businesses and threatening imports of basic necessities including medicines.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2016

For six months now, five major financial groups have been strangling WikiLeaks by cutting off the group’s ability to raise funding.

From Forbes • Jun. 29, 2011

If approved, the compromise would bring the deficit below $100 billion and possibly jolt wary financial markets into lowering the high interest rates that have been strangling hopes for an economic recovery.

From Time Magazine Archive