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lock out
verb as in discharge
verb as in dismiss
Strong matches
verb as in exclude
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in occlude
verb as in shut off/shut out
Example Sentences
The system has the potential to benefit Americans while locking out foreign fans.
I explained that I was now locked out of the BBC and was annoyed.
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."
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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