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They pay in having to cope with sizzling health waves, powerful hurricanes, and suffocating wildfire smoke.

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Discovering that plants need sunlight to grow, or that fish will suffocate when taken out of water, requires no quantification of anything whatsoever.

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Scores of businesses in the city are suffocating as they delay their return to work or, worse, decide to work from home forever.

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We’ve read through quite a few letters about Zoom, suffocating family dinners, the role of sound and music, birthdays and anniversaries, and racially charged encounters.

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In industries where specific brand names have become synonymous with their original product, new brands can easily be suffocated out of the game.

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As it was, ere he had time to suffocate, MacPherson was on the spot.

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They would first suffocate, and later their bodies would be swallowed up in the stomach of the earth.

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The gas emitted from this fissure is so strong that it would suffocate a person, holding his head near the ground.

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Insects do not easily suffocate, and it is worse than useless, in the majority of cases, to punch air-holes in such boxes.

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Many females in fact cry out at those times, that something has broken in the throat, and they fear they are going to suffocate.