stranglehold
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Look at the stranglehold ridesharing apps have on hailing a cab.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026
It also placed a stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that serves as a critical shipping route through which a fifth of the world's energy shipments usually transits.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
But Iran also has a say given its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, she added.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
Senegal midfielder Habib Diarra increased Sunderland's stranglehold before the break with his first league goal since arriving from Strasbourg last year.
From Barron's • Feb. 2, 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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