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
  • Instead, the county approved a four-site plan that excludes Midland while also eliminating Sunday voting — another issue that had divided the board during lengthy negotiations.
    — Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026
  • This year, that cutoff excludes the Blue Jays, Phillies and White Sox, whose staff-wide walk rate allowed is 11% higher than average.
    — Neil Paine, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Definition of excludes
Verb
  • Visitors should also be aware that the state fair allows plastic water bottles to be brought into the fairgrounds, but bans water bottles made of metal, aluminum or glass.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
  • Kalshi bans insider trading on its platforms, and has taken steps throughout 2026 to crack down on speculators using material, nonpublic information to trade on its markets.
    — Dan Mangan,Davis Giangiulio,Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 16 July 2026
Definition of bans
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  • The paper also rules out a competing explanation.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 9 June 2026
  • And to me, that’s very alien to imagine that the Universe could be not following some laws, that there isn’t some set of rules out there that determines what really happens?
    — Big Think, Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
Definition of rules out
Verb
  • Washington also bars its pension funds and college endowments from investing into Chinese firms developing sensitive technologies.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 16 July 2026
  • The ban bars the destruction of unsold apparel and shoes as an effort to curb overproduction that results in millions of tons of fashion waste.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 14 July 2026
Definition of bars
Verb
  • These shorts have an easy pull-on opening that eliminates the tug-and-jump dance associated with denim shorts.
    — Rylee Johnston, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026
  • The process eliminates a few chemical processing stages and stops at magnesium hydroxide, a material widely used across US industries, and currently imported in large quantities.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 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
  • Over time, this prevents excessive soap scum and residue from hardening on the surface.
    — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026
  • Additionally, avoiding social media posts about travel and arranging for mail collection and trash removal prevents advertising an empty house.
    — Jill Schildhouse, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
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