shut out
Example Sentences
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Patriots were shut out by Hart and need to get their passing game going.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Home affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf said "young British people are being shut out of entry level jobs and our whole economy is being undermined".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
As labels strike deals with AI start-ups, advocacy groups warn that the artists whose voices and work make those deals valuable are being shut out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
However, it doesn’t mean that global memory players will be shut out from fulfilling China’s memory needs, he notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
It seemed that here some memories slipped around my life at the campus and went far back to things I had long ago shut out of my mind.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
