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throttle

verb as in choke

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has already used nuclear saber-rattling to throttle American support for Ukraine.

And that was a week after the Chargers’ defense throttled Pittsburgh, with the Steelers going 0 for 9 on third down until garbage time.

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Airlines and travelers scrambled to review flight plans after U.S. transportation officials revealed plans to throttle commercial air traffic starting Friday in response to the government shutdown.

At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.

"While the trend is quite established in Asia, it is only just starting in Europe and the US, and we don't want to throttle the growth by imposing any sanctions on them."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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