READS OUT Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

reads out

verb

present tense third-person singular of read out

as in shuts out

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The birthplace criterion also shuts out key figures of the Harlem Renaissance — including Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and Louis Armstrong — who were born in the American South and moved to New York as part of the Great Migration.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 10 June 2026
Northgate edges Case Grande in baseball semifinal, shuts out Salesian to advance to softball final.

— Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 28 May 2026

Definition of shuts out

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But when her character — saucy British writer Constance Clavinger — turns out to be a handful (getting drunk at the airport bar, for starters), Homer struggles to get her to the school on time.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
One target has a disability; another turns out to be a rabbi, who responds to his confrontation with suitably Talmudic indignation.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of turns out

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The book is structured as a quest to figure out why a class of aimless young men in late-Thatcherist Blighty get their kicks out of getting paralytically drunk and bashing one another half to death every weekend.

— Leander Schaerlaeckens June 8, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
Pretti then spits on the SUV and kicks out the vehicle's passenger-side taillight.

— Kevin Ko, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026

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