strangling
- present participle of strangle.
Example Sentences
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Lula's new plan aims to focus on financially strangling criminal factions, disrupting money laundering and cracking down on illicit markets that supply these groups, such as arms trafficking.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
In “Two Prosecutors,” the inert nobodies blocking Kornev’s progress are crisply choreographed, Stalin’s existential choke hold strangling their very spirit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
It has balanced the budget, improved government aid to the poor by removing political middlemen, and cut a tangle of red tape that was strangling business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
But the despair strangling Romania is not too distant from that place either regardless of how forward-looking it may be.
From Salon ● May 13, 2024
“Ouch! Mum — you’re strangling us —” “I shouted at you before you left!”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
