locked out

past tense of lock out
as in walked

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  • Timmerman replaced Burnham and walked Jolyna Lamar and Rylee Slimp before Grant crushed a 260-foot no-doubter that hit a metal fence beyond the wall in left-center field.
    Tim Willert, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • Saylor Timmerman replaced Burnham and walked Jolyna Lamar and Rylee Slimp before Grant blasted a 260-foot homer that hit a metal fence beyond the wall in left-center field.
    Daily News, Daily News, 30 May 2026
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  • In a nod to her Noughties rom-com glory days, Lopez embraced glam that could have walked out of the early 2000s.
    Lara Walsh, InStyle, 3 June 2026
  • That's a dramatically higher survival rate than was seen in West Africa in 2014, where only about half of patients walked out of treatment clinics.
    Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 2 June 2026
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“Locked out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locked%20out. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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