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- noun Plural form of
strangling .
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Examples
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What with all the lies and those pesky stranglings.
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010
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She worked as a prostitute specialising in sado-masochism - whippings and stranglings.
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I. October 2006, I.traveled to the lakeside home in Americus, Georgia, of Jim Covington, a retired special agent with the G.B.I. I. the 1970s, he spent almost a year as co-leader of the stocking-stranglings investigation.
The Stocking Strangler case Rose, David 2007
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I am to be with givings of the extra cheezburgarz to da summishiner, Andrea, who did kapshin dis picture alzo… +++++ for sayings of “should HAVE” rather than the unfortunately-common “should OF”… a phrase which with makings ME wants for the stranglings peoples.
SHOULD HAVE BEEN A CHEEZBURGER. :( - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Augmenting the efforts of the local police was a “stocking stranglings task force” assigned by the governor, with dozens of agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and extra patrols by state troopers and soldiers from Fort Benning.
The Stocking Strangler case Rose, David 2007
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However, "The Real Story" is last week ` s show went way too far by featuring the models in a photo series where they ` re all dead, half - dressed, twisted, in grisly poses, victims of shootings, stranglings and organ removal.
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At the time, investigators suspected that the stranglings that plagued Boston from 1962 to 1964 were copycat crimes and not the work of one serial killer.
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After all, no Death Star can operate efficiently without a few Sith force-stranglings!
COOL STUFF: Deathstar Mania! Part-Deux - Lego Edition (17 July 2007) MaksimSmelchak 2007
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But no physical evidence ever linked DeSalvo to the stranglings.
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However, one might read his future stranglings, which are properly speaking murders (intentional killings) as memorializations of this initial traumatic moment with William of not being heard, of attempting to make himself be heard, and of the death of his desired interlocutor being the result of that effort.
Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800 2005
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