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 And the Cup created new stars, like 40-year-old Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha, who gained millions of Instagram followers after shutting out Spain. — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2026 Spain was riding high ahead of Sunday’s match after shutting out France in a 2-0 semifinals win on Tuesday, July 14. — Eleanor Jacobs, PEOPLE, 19 July 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shutting out
  1. excluding
  2. banning
  3. ruling out
  4. eliminating
  5. freezing out
  6. barring
  7. preventing
Verb
  • This includes accommodation and meals, all soft and alcoholic drinks (excluding French champagne) including cellar collection wines, cocktails and single-malt whiskeys, laundry service, lodge activities, massage and spa treatments.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 July 2026
  • Heatwaves and rising temperatures in some of Lindt's core European markets could impact chocolate demand, with European sales excluding Eastern Europe, declining in the four weeks ending June 14, the analysts said.
    — Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 26 July 2026
Definition of excluding
Verb
  • French lawmakers are racing against the clock to reach a compromise that would allow a bill banning social media for children under 15 to possibly enter into force at the start of the new school year in September.
    — Samuel Petrequin, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • What’s to stop Morocco, co-host of the 2030 tournament, from banning officials and players from Algeria over the two countries’ territorial dispute in the Western Sahara?
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of banning
Verb
  • 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
  • Rinehart, a veteran of political and issue-advocacy campaigns, was a former swimmer at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, which proposed eliminating the sport in 2013 amid a campus budget shortfall.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 23 July 2026
  • Banks previously responded to the 2010 measure on debit card swipe fees by eliminating rewards for those cards, and opponents are afraid credit cards will follow.
    — Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of eliminating
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The bill was supposed to go into effect July 1, but a judge issued a preliminary injunction days before, barring enforcement in some situations, but not completely.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 24 July 2026
  • The agreement is a tacit acknowledgement that that will not happen, barring a settlement with the states.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 24 July 2026
Definition of barring
Verb
  • Kennedy has said that the campaign is aimed at preventing improper payments instead of recovering them after the fact, with the Administration increasingly using payment deferrals and pre-payment reviews of Medicaid claims.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 22 July 2026
  • The defense has also complained that Washington interfered with Maduro’s representation by initially preventing the Venezuelan government from paying his legal bills.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 22 July 2026
Definition of preventing

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