stranglehold
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One final candidate to break the Spanish stranglehold is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a Barcelona player.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
The sheer complexity of rebuilding damaged energy facilities translates into an extended stranglehold on global supply—and higher oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
This quartet from Kyoto, Japan, put the Mosswood crowd in a stranglehold at the Field Stage and didn’t let up once during its entire set of math-rocky, manic, candy-colored fury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
For anyone who cares about video games as art and has bemoaned the ever-tightening corporate stranglehold over visual entertainment and its archives, Sony’s disc phaseout is an earth-shattering quake that’s not to be taken lightly.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Still in the stranglehold of sleep, my mind struggled to make sense of it.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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