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Appeared in the October 2, 2025, print edition as 'Student-Loan Debt Is Strangling Gen X'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025

His mission failed in the face of Russian and British opposition, which he described in a memoir, “The Strangling of Persia.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022

The article’s headline by itself could have brought on headaches: “Wall Street’s Values Are Strangling American Business.”

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2014

Prometheus Strangling the Vulture II is typically powerful, but it is also unnecessarily cluttered.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Strangling Figs shook and seemed to sigh deeply, as if saying, “It’s your funeral,” before moving aside and letting them in.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega