throttle

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For Anthropic in particular, computing constraints have caused outages and forced it to throttle users, while OpenAI’s Codex is rapidly gaining popularity, adding pressure as Anthropic struggles to keep pace with its own growth.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Class 2 e-bikes have a throttle that allows users to operate them without pedaling, but the electric motors top out at 20 mph.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

At the moment, the cars require energy management techniques such as recovering energy while on full throttle, which leads to a speed drop-off before corners and through some fast curves.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

But as the EV age dawned, helped by top-down policy such as generous subsidies, Chinese firms hit the throttle.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

For ten or fifteen minutes Elroy held a course upstream, the river choppy and silver-gray, then he turned straight north and put the engine on full throttle.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien