freezes out

verb

present tense third-person singular of freeze out
as in excludes
to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of a housing market that effectively freezes out people of moderate means

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Recent Examples of freezes out Apple's iPhone 18 Pro launch in September strategically freezes out competing Android smartphones. — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for freezes out
  1. excludes
  2. bans
  3. rules out
  4. bars
  5. eliminates
  6. shuts out
  7. prevents
Verb
  • Instead of positioning its embodiment as a personal tragedy that inevitably excludes people from society, the language of 504 suggested that our exclusion had been largely created and should be corrected.
    — Rebekah Taussig, Time, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Anthropic is still losing a lot of money overall, and its margin excludes the cost of training new models.
    — J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of excludes
Verb
  • This is in stark contrast to rival retailer Amazon, which bans third-party agentic tools, such as Meta’s Muse and Perplexity’s shopping agent.
    — James Peckham, PC Magazine, 22 Oct. 2026
  • In 2024, Wisconsin voters approved a constitutional amendment backed by Republicans that bans the use of private grant money to run elections.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of bans
Verb
  • But at the prospect of engagement dropping by even one percent, Zuckerberg rules out any serious measures against content violation, making Charlie furious by refusing to consider policing political ads for falsehoods.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Well, there are some rules out there already in terms of states requiring that companies list salary ranges in the job descriptions.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of rules out
Verb
  • Both letters cited the National Voter Registration Act, a federal law that bars states from systematically removing ineligible voters from state voter rolls during the 90 days before an election.
    — Miles Parks, NPR, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The draft also bars other federal departments, agencies, and officials from suspending a model’s development, deployment, or internal use.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of bars
Verb
  • This operational visibility eliminates weeks of back-and-forth negotiation and guesswork for brands and factory managers.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Where Sister Jeanne’s authentic longing becomes a weapon for powerful men, Bear eliminates Nikki’s autonomy altogether.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of eliminates
Verb
  • That is because networks increasingly stay in-house, which helps makes the economics of broadcast work but essentially shuts out third-party suppliers.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of shuts out
Verb
  • Barnes is cold-based, and thus frozen directly onto the bedrock beneath it, which prevents it from sliding.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026
  • This method prevents nitrogen from diluting the exhaust gas, which hinders combustion and keeps the CO₂ concentration relatively low.
    — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of prevents

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