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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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Johnson allowed one walk with career highs of eight strikeouts and six innings, while throwing 90 pitches.
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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.
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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Lawyers for Julia Ormond are looking to have the court issue a bench warrant for the arrest of CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz for walking out of a deposition after being prodded about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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In photos shared by police, the bearded man can be seem walking out of a Best Buy store while wearing a bucket hat and Calvin Klein t-shirt.
Noun
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Last year, however, marked another slowdown, which experts largely attributed to a decline in international migration.
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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“Lock out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lock%20out. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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