SHUTTING OUT Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

shutting out

verb

present participle of shut out

as in excluding

to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of local residents feel that they have been shut out of the debate for expanding the airport

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Recent Examples of shutting out The defender, a former member of MLS’ Orlando City SC and who now patrols the backline at La Liga club Villarreal in Spain, has rewarded the coach by helping shut down Paraguay a week ago and shutting out Australia here in Seattle. — David Close, CNN Money, 20 June 2026 The Reds got the best of the Mets yesterday, putting up 12 unanswered runs and shutting out New York. — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026 The Mavericks won Game 1 of the ECHL’s best-of-seven championship series on Friday night, shutting out Florida 6-0 at Cable Dahmer Arena. — Jeff Rosen, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2026 The Wildcats scored five unanswered goals in the final quarter, shutting out the Tar Heels for the last 15 minutes of the game. — CBS News, 24 May 2026 The Ducks buckled down and were six seconds away from shutting out the Golden Knights. — Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 9 May 2026 The Orlando Pride broke a two-match losing streak late Friday by shutting down and shutting out the North Carolina Courage 1-0 in front of 7,088 fans at Inter&Co Stadium. — Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 May 2026 The Kings have won the battle of the special teams, with their penalty kill shutting out the NHL’s highest-scoring team on nine chances. — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026 Brooke Bereuter was masterful in goal for Grapevine shutting out Argyle (18-4-3) until the shootout, including stopping a key penalty kick in the first half. — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2026

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Since May 1, New York state, excluding New York City, has seen 107 cases.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
The labor force participation rate fell to its lowest level in half a century when excluding the pandemic, according to data released Thursday.

— Dan Mangan,Luke Fountain,Kevin Breuninger,Garrett Downs,Ashley Capoot,Justin Papp, CNBC, 2 July 2026

Definition of excluding

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Japan previously had eight empresses, mostly when the male heirs were too young to rule, until the Imperial House Law was enacted in 1889 during the Meiji era, officially banning female emperors.

— Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
The national monument designation provides sweeping protections not just for significant geological features or artifacts but also for the surrounding landscape, banning drilling, mining and new construction nearby.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 July 2026

Definition of banning

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Additional checkpoints may help identify gaps or inconsistencies, ruling out the bad actors.

— John Bou, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Additional observations steadily refined the asteroid's orbit, eliminating any possibility of a collision in 2029 and also ruling out any impact threat for at least the next century, according to NASA.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 6 July 2026

Definition of ruling out

Verb

Disney’s private island became the first to allow ships to dock directly at the shore—eliminating the need for a tender.

— Christian Sylt, Fortune, 16 July 2026
Kennedy and his advisers debated eliminating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot in the fall, according to the three people.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 16 July 2026

Definition of eliminating

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The Democratic Party’s nightmare scenario would involve both Republican candidates advancing to November’s general election, freezing out Democrats from the governor’s office for the first time since 2011.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2026
Minnesota officials said on Thursday that the FBI is taking the lead on the investigation and freezing out state investigators.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 9 Jan. 2026

Definition of freezing out

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Friday's appeals court ruling in the New Jersey case goes further than a July 2024 ruling from a federal judge, who said that the state's ban on AR-15s specifically was unconstitutional but upheld the provision barring larger magazines.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 July 2026
What’s being done to address Land Park’s issues Aside from barring nighttime parking in the park, the city has also discussed closing some streets in the park to vehicular traffic as part of a two-year pilot program.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026

Definition of barring

Verb

After launching the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russia managed to occupy all of the Ukrainian land that surrounds the Sea of Azov, preventing Kyiv from accessing it.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
Events unfold over the course of one evening as a hurricane rolls in, blocking outside communication and preventing reinforcements from arriving.

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 14 July 2026

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