strangulation
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Specialists with the Department of Fish and Wildlife speculate that he may have lost his toes due to umbilical cord strangulation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
Smock had testified as an expert on strangulation as a witness for the prosecution in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
Former Conservative MEP Baroness Jacqueline Foster also spoke out, telling Parliament that non-fatal strangulation was a criminal offence that could be punished with imprisonment.
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
A jury found PC Richard Williams, 43, not guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm and a second charge of intentional strangulation following a seven-day trial in Caernarfon.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
The startled sparrow shot downwards and stopped with a jerk, only thick neck feathers saving her from strangulation.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Accidental suffocations and strangulations aren't necessarily happening more often, some experts say; rather, fatality review teams have become better at identifying causes of death.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2023
“It’s not complicated. It might be hard, but it’s not complicated. That’s just math. It’s the same reason these days we have fewer strangulations with a landline.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
Sir Thomas Browne said that in his day the Elder had become a famous medicine for quinsies, sore throats, and strangulations.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
Strangulations.—We are now in a position to understand the so-called strangulations which result when woody climbers, telegraph wires, etc.,
From Disease in Plants by H. Marshall Ward
