Example Sentences

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The group aims to fight regulations they say will strangle AI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Our system of “just in time” delivery of goods of all types will strangle the normal form and function of commerce.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2021

His fear, he added, is that “we will strangle on our success.”

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2018

“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

From Time • Apr. 24, 2014

If this unfeeling and despotic policy be adopted by the government, it will strangle the Confederacy—strangle it with red-tape.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp