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Recent Examples of lock out
Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 16 May 2026
For a while now, the dominant narrative of the gubernatorial race has been whether the two Republican candidates who have sat at the top of recent polling could lock out the Democrats and advance to the general.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 13 Apr. 2026
Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
This lockout could be much longer and a lot worse.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
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Verb
Saturday — to again try to resolve their differences before the union is legally allowed to go on strike or the agency could lock out workers.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 16 May 2026
For a while now, the dominant narrative of the gubernatorial race has been whether the two Republican candidates who have sat at the top of recent polling could lock out the Democrats and advance to the general.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
Unless something dramatic changes, baseball is headed for another lockout.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
This lockout could be much longer and a lot worse.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lock out
Verb
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Johnson allowed one walk with career highs of eight strikeouts and six innings, while throwing 90 pitches.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
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Manny Machado hit a first pitch, walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning, sending the Padres to a 7-6 win and the Braves to their ninth loss in the last 12 games.—
Chad Bishop,
AJC.com,
24 June 2026
Noun
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Ahead of the sit-down dinner and ceremony, guests such as Storm Reid, Christine Quinn, Jurnee Smollett, and Lukas Gage trickled in from the rainy outdoors over an hour or so, greeted inside with Casamigos cocktails, filet mignon canapés, and more.—
Jamila Stewart,
Vogue,
22 Mar. 2023
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News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.—
Kirsty Hatcher,
Peoplemag,
22 Mar. 2023
Verb
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Participants of the class then walked out of the building along the stairs on a nearby street.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
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Brink walked out of the locker room postgame on her own.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 June 2026
Noun
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Last year, however, marked another slowdown, which experts largely attributed to a decline in international migration.—
Ignacio Calderon,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
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An attempt to ease zoning and permitting rules Many housing experts point to local zoning and red tape as the root of the slowdown in homebuilding.—
Samantha Delouya,
CNN Money,
23 June 2026
Noun
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In addition to the sleeping spaces, the multi-level villas include dining areas, kitchenettes with refrigerators and electric cook tops, fireplaces, walkout decks, and washers and dryers.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
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Hundreds of South African garment workers have staged walkouts to protest the mass firing of co-workers from neighboring countries like Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, warning that rising anti-immigrant sentiment could jeopardize the livelihoods of both locals and migrants.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
18 June 2026
Noun
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The pilots’ job action was in protest of the Belgian government’s reforms to federal pensions.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
15 Oct. 2025
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Organized job actions like strikes or sickouts are prohibited by federal law, but since air traffic control staffing is so tight, a small number of employees taking unscheduled time off can be enough to cause problems.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Workers have even more leverage: Employees can circulate internal petitions calling on their CEOs to cut ties with ICE and organize collective actions like sick-outs.—
Eric Blanc,
Washington Post,
12 Jan. 2026
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Boomer also denied that the district’s accusation that employees in the department had organized a sick-out on Oct. 15.—
Jessica Seaman,
Denver Post,
18 Dec. 2025
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