choke off
verb
choked off; choking off; chokes off
: to bring to a stop or to an end as if by choking
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The collapse choked off access to the port of Baltimore.
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Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
From gobbling up ad-tech rivals through anticompetitive mergers to bullying businesses into using Google’s ad products, to controlling key businesses in each part of the ad-tech stack, the governments say, Google drove up prices for advertisers and choked off revenue for websites.
—Brian Fung, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
In 2000, however, a dam upstream choked off the flow, and the spray faded away.
—Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 31 July 2024
The move shook Japan’s electronics sector and threatened to choke off global supplies of high-power magnets produced in Japan employing rare earths from China.
—Mahnoor Khan, Fortune Asia, 2 Sep. 2024
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Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
From gobbling up ad-tech rivals through anticompetitive mergers to bullying businesses into using Google’s ad products, to controlling key businesses in each part of the ad-tech stack, the governments say, Google drove up prices for advertisers and choked off revenue for websites.
—Brian Fung, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
In 2000, however, a dam upstream choked off the flow, and the spray faded away.
—Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 31 July 2024
The move shook Japan’s electronics sector and threatened to choke off global supplies of high-power magnets produced in Japan employing rare earths from China.
—Mahnoor Khan, Fortune Asia, 2 Sep. 2024
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“Choke off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/choke%20off. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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