choke hold

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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

“I feel like an MMA fighter who keeps getting inflation in a choke hold, waiting for it to tap out, yet it keeps slipping out of my grasp at the last minute,” Waller said.

From Salon • Dec. 3, 2024

It is the sense of familiar territory made surreal, of easiness gradually becoming a choke hold, that gives “Room” its echoing power.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2019

American Demetrious Johnson, also making his One Championship debut, won his flyweight bout when he got Japan’s Yuya Wakamatsu in a choke hold at 2 minutes, 40-seconds of the second round.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2019

Armpit charged into them, freeing Zigzag from Zero's choke hold.

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar