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shut out

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adjective

shutout

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noun

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Over those recent days in February, when patients in Alabama were shut out of fertility clinics, Carr acutely felt the importance of her work. Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024 The 21-year-old shut out the opening, which would become a common theme through the early part of the match. George Ramsay, CNN, 4 Aug. 2024 Her success is all about focusing inward, shutting out everything else. Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 July 2024 Many of my fellow independents choose to remain independent and are shut out altogether. Melanie Combs-Dyer, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for shut out 

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“Shut out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shut%20out. Accessed 12 Sep. 2024.

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