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

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026

The famous Facebook motto “Move fast and break things” is cute, but a better Silicon Valley mantra would be “Go around and strangle things.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

It was wrong—disgusting—but if it worked it would break Charlies strangle hold on my emotions.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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

“I need to get out of this place before it strangles me,” says one of Volpe’s students, a girl ranked fifth academically in the senior class.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

The Academy Awards broadcast, which once routinely drew audiences of 40 million, saw its viewership plummet to 10.4 million in the pandemic strangled year of 2021.

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

Or that Winston Churchill—who in 1919 said Bolshevism should be strangled in its cradle—became Stalin’s puppet 22 years later?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 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

“I don’t have it,” said Zheng in a strangled voice.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

For 50 years, Cfius has made classified judgments about strategic assets without strangling private markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

But dismantling the vast web of sanctions now strangling Syria will take time.

From BBC ● May 14, 2025

Oh, absolutely nothing, except that I was strangling on bitterness and gall and was in no mood to talk about it.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly