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
  • That figure excludes its largest heavy-duty trucks, which are classified differently.
    — Michael Wayland, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Per iSpot, the Kelces have accounted for nearly 14% of all ad airings featuring celebrity talent during NFL games thus far, a tally that excludes network promos, streaming show promos and trailers.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of excludes
Verb
  • Federal law currently bans most robocalls to cellphones unless the caller gets consent beforehand.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Thursday’s announcement formally bans Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, and four other companies from the permanent labor certification process.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 8 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
  • Immigration and the border California law bars local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration officials except in the cases of people convicted of certain high-level felonies.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The law bars discrimination based on race, color or national origin in programs that receive federal money.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of bars
Verb
  • Kwon said the South Korean military removed a North Korean minefield around the blast site on Monday and will remove other North Korean minefields placed south of the border unless North Korea voluntarily eliminates them.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The New Advantages So how can small companies compete as AI eliminates the old advantages?
    — Bonnie Le Page, Forbes.com, 2 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
  • Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, arguing that allowing the case to move forward prevents the lower court from considering Pike’s allegations from her childhood.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Newsom signed a similar bill that prevents federal agents from becoming police in California if their federal badge was revoked for misconduct.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
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