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Recent Examples of lock out
Verb
He was also locked out of an electronic file that contained secure professional records such as his employee performance evaluation.—Michelle Watson, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025 Under the agreement ending the strike, King Soopers can’t lock out workers or implement any offer for at least 100 days.—Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
Manfred said offseason lockouts should be considered a new norm.—Evan Drellich, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025 Threats of lockout: Nothing like a good threat to get your heart racing, huh?—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lock out
The downtown area skirts the north end of Skaneateles Lake, with people walking their dogs past local boutiques, window-shopping, and browsing restaurant menus.
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Lauren Breedlove,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Mar. 2025
New York clawed back, however, to break a tie between the two teams that walked onto the FedEx Forum floors with identical records on Friday.
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Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
1 Mar. 2025
News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.
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Kirsty Hatcher,
Peoplemag,
22 Mar. 2023
Ahead of the sit-down dinner and ceremony, guests such as Storm Reid, Christine Quinn, Jurnee Smollett, and Lukas Gage trickled in from the rainy outdoors over an hour or so, greeted inside with Casamigos cocktails, filet mignon canapés, and more.
Students at Humphreys High School, located on Camp Humphreys in South Korea, the largest overseas U.S. military base, are also participating in the walkout, as well as students at Kaiserslautern High School, around six miles away from Ramstein High School.
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA TODAY,
6 Mar. 2025
Representative Jasmine Crockett, known for her sharp critiques of GOP misinformation, led a walkout mid-speech in protest.
However, there were allegations that the sick-out at that time was, in truth, a job action.
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Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
21 Feb. 2025
The National Union of Healthcare Workers said that nearly 2,400 mental health workers had launched their job action after Kaiser management had turned down proposals that the union said would stanch employee turnover and improve care.
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Emily Alpert Reyes,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Oct. 2024
Earlier this month, hundreds of Metro bus riders staged a sick-out in protest of the rising number of assaults among their ranks carried out by passengers.
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Nathan Solis,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2024
On Wednesday, the City Council voted to pay $250,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Baggett’s family members.
— TRANSIT TRAUMA: Days after hundreds of Metro bus drivers staged a sick-out protesting safety concerns, L.A.’s transit network continued to experience a string of violent behavior.
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