freeze out

verb

Definition of freeze outnext
as in to exclude
to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of a housing market that effectively freezes out people of moderate means

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Recent Examples of freeze out Years of soaring home prices, especially in the early part of this decade when rock-bottom mortgage rates fueled a buying frenzy, have left many would-be homebuyers frozen out of the market. — Alex Veiga, Fortune, 9 July 2026 Apple's iPhone 18 Pro launch in September strategically freezes out competing Android smartphones. — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026 At 61/2, she was immediately branded a lesbian and frozen out. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026 Unions that back the wrong horse in a primary can get frozen out. — Heather Merrick, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for freeze out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for freeze out
  1. exclude
  2. ban
  3. eliminate
  4. shut out
  5. bar
  6. prevent
  7. rule out
Verb
  • Yet only a few people have actually seen it, with smaller and open-source AI companies generally getting excluded from the administration’s conversations.
    — Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Bubeck allegedly wanted to exclude Alpöge, an employee of OpenAI’s competitor, according to Buckmaster.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of exclude
Verb
  • Denver Public Schools in Colorado has banned the popular chatbot ChatGPT but authorizes students to use an educational AI platform, MagicSchool, reported 9 News.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Traditional political parties were banned, and a council of locals began directly managing the town’s funds.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of ban
Verb
  • Fitness testing eliminated NHL players were accustomed to returning from summer to a grueling set of tests from their teams.
    — Chris Johnston, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Bring up the unnecessary and wasteful government programs that should be eliminated.
    — Cal Thomas, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of eliminate
Verb
  • Meta supposedly favors Chinese resellers, because, without them, Meta would be shut out from billions in profits from the lucrative Chinese ad market, since its platforms are banned there.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Sofia has strong feelings about the ultra-rich looking out for themselves as the world teeters toward disaster, shutting out everyone else.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of shut out
Verb
  • Min Aung Hlaing faced years of diplomatic isolation following his 2021 takeover and was barred from top-level ASEAN meetings for failing to comply with the bloc's peace plan for Myanmar.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026
  • The division is probably out of reach, barring a weekend sweep of the Atlanta Braves, and that’s not the end of the world.
    — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of bar
Verb
  • One of the Constitution’s founding purposes was to prevent change.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The coalition struck the runway in Sanaa, preventing the flight from landing.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of prevent
Verb
  • But if Allen is ruled out for the season, the Bills likely tumble out of the top five.
    — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • After investigating 600 items of evidence related to the substation, the National Energy System Operator ruled out suspicious activity in a report saying a preventable moisture fault caused the fire, leaving almost 70,000 homes without power.
    — Henry Austin, NBC news, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of rule out

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“Freeze out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freeze%20out. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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