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With the Iran war continuing to strangle Middle East oil supplies, public transit agencies looking to add passengers might expect high gas prices to incentivize people to ride the rails more than ever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

To help overcome the not-insignificant expense of buying a strangle, we chose a short expiration that reduces the amount of time premium embedded in the options.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

The goal "is not to dominate China; nor is it to strangle or humiliate them", the document says.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

The choice of mediocre investments can strangle the flow of endowment money to pay for yet more administrators.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026

He played “YMCA,” and the strawberry plants started going crazy, wrapping around our feet like they were trying to strangle us.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

All items in the table should be checked just before the earnings are announced, for that would be the time to buy the straddles or strangles if they do satisfy the “needed” requirement.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

As the war in Iran strangles the flow of oil around the globe, California’s jet fuel reservoirs are running low.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

This blocking of competition drives up prices for merchants and consumers, harms security and strangles innovation.”

From Washington Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

The searingly honest March 30 news article about the California drought, “In its third year, California’s drought strangles farming,” painted a brutal and accurate portrait of what’s happening to farmers and farm communities.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2022

The anger strangles my words because who is he to judge her?

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

But they're still strangled by international sanctions linked to terrorism and human rights.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The U.S. submarine campaign against Japan showed that a country can be strangled by attacking its logistics and supply lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The conflict with Iran has strangled movement through the Persian Gulf and catapulted the price of a barrel of oil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

The war has strangled shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a U-bend-like chokepoint off the Iranian coast that acts as a highway for more than a third of the world’s oceangoing oil exports each year.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

The bird makes a painful, strangled sound much different than its normal coo.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

But Xi must be concerned about the very real possibility of a global recession stemming from Iran’s continued strangling of shipping through the Strait.

From Salon ● May 14, 2026

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

And for some, such as the Strait of Hormuz, no maritime detours exist, effectively strangling supply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

She sounded as if she were trying to sing though weeping and strangling.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston