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Thanks in part to legislation that has choked off housing inventory, formerly working-class buildings like the one where Appelbaum resides are now out of reach for the working class.

Still, some state officials in states with abortion bans have sought to choke off the supply of medication that induces abortion.

This choked off Germany's once-abundant supplies of cheap Russian gas, at the very time when the country was phasing out nuclear power.

Last week Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he was making it his "personal mission to choke off Russian revenues" through sanctions.

Four years after the pandemic choked off travel, the Khao Kheow Open Zoo had yet to recover from the financial devastation.