froze out

verb

past tense of freeze out
as in excluded
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 froze out San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama froze out the media on Tuesday night, following a brutal Game 5 against the Oklahoma City Thunder that resulted in a 127-114 loss. — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2026 That's because Beijing, the most important overseas market for the NBA, effectively froze out the NBA in 2019 following a fallout over protests in Hong Kong. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for froze out
  1. excluded
  2. banned
  3. eliminated
  4. barred
  5. shut out
  6. prohibited
  7. ruled out
  8. prevented
Verb
  • Open models will be excluded from the voluntary pre-release review, at least for now.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Research found that more than 70% of workers report being socially excluded at work in six months, while 48% report harassment or bullying, and those are big numbers.
    — Jason Walker PsyD, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of excluded
Verb
  • Following the January 2025 midair collision at Reagan National Airport, helicopters were also banned from a four-mile stretch of the neighboring Potomac River when flights were landing.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • In different cases, Cirilli has taken on the NCAA and several universities across the country over transgender women athletes being banned from competing in sports events.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of banned
Verb
  • Lawmakers eliminated the daily reporting requirement and shift responsibility for tracking and publicizing enforcement activity to local and state agencies.
    — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Six schools have closed, and 1,000 positions were eliminated because of budget cuts and declining enrollment.
    — Nikiya Carrero, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of eliminated
Verb
  • Min Aung Hlaing has since been barred from attending top-level meetings for failing to comply with the plan.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Cloobeck and Lavie had publicly announced plans to get married in Jerusalem, but Lavie was subsequently barred from leaving the state due to her pending criminal case.
    — City News Service, Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of barred
Verb
  • Cold comfort for Gaza’s two million residents, who remain shut out of the conversation and all but powerless to determine their fate.
    — Andrew Carey, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
  • May shut out the Padres on one hit and one walk in June while with the Cardinals.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of shut out
Verb
  • The hospital is required to update the list monthly and prohibited from removing someone from the list, whether or not anything in their medical record has changed.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 7 Aug. 2026
  • However, Canada's border policy at the time prohibited most unvaxxed foreign nationals from entering the country.
    — Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of prohibited
Verb
  • Chinese leader Xi Jinping has vowed to bring Taiwan under party’s control, and has not ruled out the use of force to do so.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
  • His lawyers have not ruled out further legal action of their own.
    — Elise Spenner, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of ruled out
Verb
  • Authorities immediately launched a rescue operation involving firefighters, police, the National Disaster Response Force and civic officials but efforts were hampered by narrow access lanes that prevented the use of heavy machinery, officials said.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Both came alive right along the Gulf Coast and were battered by wind shear every step of the way, which prevented them from strengthening significantly and limited their impacts overall.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of prevented

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“Froze out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/froze%20out. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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