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Recent Examples of chock
Officers then pushed the Mazda into a parking spot, chocked the tires, and contacted the respective car owners, who planned to handle the damages privately.
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Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2019
Make sure your car is in gear, with the parking brake set and the tires chocked.
—Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2018
Then set the car’s parking brake, chock an opposite wheel with a rock or block of wood, then pop off the hub cap with the blade-end of the jack handle.
—Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Aug. 2017
Officers had to chock the wheels to keep the bus from rolling.
—Donna McGuire Judy L. Thomas, kansascity, 27 July 2017
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Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2019
Make sure your car is in gear, with the parking brake set and the tires chocked.
—Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2018
Then set the car’s parking brake, chock an opposite wheel with a rock or block of wood, then pop off the hub cap with the blade-end of the jack handle.
—Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Aug. 2017
Officers had to chock the wheels to keep the bus from rolling.
—Donna McGuire Judy L. Thomas, kansascity, 27 July 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chock
Verb
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Tweaking the acceleration, braking, and steering in the My Mode setting doesn’t improve the vehicle’s giddy-up.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
6 Feb. 2025
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In-vehicle infotainment and telematics systems capture granular details such as trip histories, speed, braking patterns and door activity.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes,
6 Dec. 2024
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The model cut off her once-signature long blonde hair coming up to a year ago, in favor of a chin-skimming, tousled bob.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
7 Feb. 2025
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Musk is leading Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency cost-cutting efforts, using a team of computer whizzes to access government agencies and payment systems to look for programs and people to cut off the payroll.—
Rachel Schilke,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Feb. 2025
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Many of these actions won’t stick legally or prove popular with voters.—
Nick Gillespie,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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The tracking the hip part is really important, because Saquon can stick his foot in the ground and cut back.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
2 Feb. 2025
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The judge’s order, issued early Saturday, temporarily halts access to a sensitive payment system that distributes Americans’ tax returns, Social Security benefits, disability payments and federal employees’ salaries.—
Andrew Torgan,
CNN,
9 Feb. 2025
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But there is now growing pushback in the courts to Musk's moves with judges taking actions to delay and halt many of DOGE's efforts, including their access to key Treasury Department payment systems.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Feb. 2025
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But that is a fiction, an excuse to stall, as settlements continue to expand.—
Kenneth Roth,
TIME,
8 Feb. 2025
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Democrats have, in fairness, shown a few glimmers of willpower of late: Fifteen attorneys general promised to oppose Trump’s plans to ban gender-affirming care this week, and members of Congress attempted more fervently to stall Trump’s nominations, or at least vote as an opposition bloc.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them,
7 Feb. 2025
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In his first two minutes as a Warrior, Butler jammed an alley-oop and muscled his way to the line for a pair of foul shots.—
Danny Emerman,
The Mercury News,
9 Feb. 2025
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You might be jammed onto a bus with a horde of others, maybe even separated from your friends, and then poured into balloons willy-nilly.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2025
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But, that’s on the list Portwood herself drew up for her guilty plea for consent judgment.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
2 Feb. 2025
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Well, that's – well, our reporting is that the order was for a list to be drawn up of those 1,500 or so people who worked on those cases.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
2 Feb. 2025
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“Chock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chock. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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