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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.
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
13 Apr. 2026
Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
10 June 2026
The three other violations, of which the company paid nothing for each, were failing to conduct a periodic inspection on control of hazardous energy, failing to train employees in hazardous energy control, and following the proper procedures of hazardous energy control lockout, according to OSHA.
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Caitlin McGlade,
Charlotte Observer,
8 June 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.
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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.
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Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
Shrum said Becerra benefited from voters who feared a lockout and wanted to back the Democratic frontrunner.
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Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
10 June 2026
The three other violations, of which the company paid nothing for each, were failing to conduct a periodic inspection on control of hazardous energy, failing to train employees in hazardous energy control, and following the proper procedures of hazardous energy control lockout, according to OSHA.
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Caitlin McGlade,
Charlotte Observer,
8 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lock out
Verb
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Dominic Canzone and Randy Arozarena walked to load the bases with one out before Josh Naylor struck out swinging.
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The 64-year-old had come from Oklahoma with his wife and son to walk up the 56 steps next to Sinking Spring, a sinkhole opening to a karst aquifer from which Lincoln first drank.
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.
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News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.
Verb
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That meant three rounds of interviews, three onboarding cycles and three rounds of institutional knowledge walking out the door.
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So much has changed in the world since her last match at this tournament and yet everything felt so familiar when the now-44-year-old walked out on court to warm up for her first singles match since the US Open in 2022.
Noun
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That puts more pressure on new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh and his colleagues, a dissent-happy bunch over the past year, to consider whether a slowdown in jobs or an uptick in inflation is the bigger risk to the economy.
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Michelle Monaghan is making midlife look less like a slowdown and more like a second wind.
Noun
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What is notable about the Stanford walkout is not its size — 200 out of 6,000 is a small fraction — but its precision.
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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.
Noun
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The pilots’ job action was in protest of the Belgian government’s reforms to federal pensions.
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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.
Noun
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Last season, Maggie faced nursing union negotiations, culminating in a sick-out.
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Maggie’s major Season 10 storyline involved the tense nursing union negotiations at the hospital, which culminated in a sick-out.
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“Lock out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lock%20out. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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