crowd out

Example Sentences

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It can crowd out potentially more productive investments as governments borrow more in financial markets to fund the additional spending, pushing up interest rates for households and businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

And yet the AI frontrunners—most notably Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX—just keep getting bigger and bigger, threatening to crowd out all the other companies that aspire to go public this year.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

"States need to contain and rationalise their subsidy outgoes, so that such spending does not crowd out more productive expenditure."

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025

The tattoo, though, feels like it has that visceral impact that will likely crowd out other concerns.

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2025

“Oh. He heard the crowd out there, the Christmas guests, and it triggers him to answer with his version of a crowd scene.”

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen