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The system has the potential to benefit Americans while locking out foreign fans.

From BBC

I explained that I was now locked out of the BBC and was annoyed.

From BBC

The fee is so high that only the biggest and richest employers will be able to pay it, locking out small start-ups that have tried to use H-1B visas to build their professional teams.

The government says increasing the minimum wage is helping, but that "a generation of young people are locked out of homeownership... we're turning this crisis around by... building the 1.5 million homes this country needs."

From BBC

Kirk surely wasn’t the only young conservative to conclude that the right was effectively locked out of existing celebrity culture and contemporary models of coolness, and therefore had to create its own.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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