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freezes out

verb

present tense third-person singular of freeze out
as in excludes
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 freezes out Apple's iPhone 18 Pro launch in September strategically freezes out competing Android smartphones. — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for freezes out
  1. excludes
  2. bans
  3. rules out
  4. bars
  5. eliminates
  6. shuts out
  7. prevents
Verb
  • But that excludes knock-on impacts to prices for airfare or food, for example, which can make the overall impact on price growth higher, the consultancy said in a May report.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
  • That figure jumped after Friday's inflation report showed that prices remain stubbornly high and core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy, picked up in August from the previous month.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of excludes
Verb
  • The ‘no outside assistance’ rule is officially defined as Rule 41 of the Racing Rules of Sailing, which bans a competing boat from taking physical or tactical help from anyone outside the crew.
    — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The Taliban bans filming in public areas where flogging as well as stoning takes place, but MA says that individuals who oppose the practice have been discretely filming these events, then posting the video.
    — Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of bans
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  • Well, there are some rules out there already in terms of states requiring that companies list salary ranges in the job descriptions.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Something so bright isn’t fueled with nuclear fusion, which rules out traditional stellar objects.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of rules out
Verb
  • State law bars judges from adding items to the ballot after Tuesday, a tight deadline that could scramble Hanaway’s efforts to overturn the ruling.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026
  • But the likely fake accounts potentially set up a legal quagmire for Temu, as European law bars the use of misleading formats for advertising.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of bars
Verb
  • The proposal also prohibits ornamental water features in new developments and eliminates the use of water-intensive cool-season grasses, such as Kentucky bluegrass, in new landscaping projects.
    — Kelly Werthmann, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • This deal, covering Southeast Asia’s largest economy and 280 million people, eliminates tariffs on 98 percent of goods traded between the two.
    — JONAS NAHM, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of eliminates
Verb
  • The birthplace criterion also shuts out key figures of the Harlem Renaissance — including Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and Louis Armstrong — who were born in the American South and moved to New York as part of the Great Migration.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 10 June 2026
  • Northgate edges Case Grande in baseball semifinal, shuts out Salesian to advance to softball final.
    — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
Definition of shuts out
Verb
  • Clear information gives everyone a fair chance to ask questions and prevents resentment from filling in the missing details.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2026
  • In perhaps the coolest reversal in the show thus far, the Lanterns are attacked with guns that produce darkness, which manifests here as smoke but prevents them from seeing or creating light constructs.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of prevents

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