SHUTS OUT Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

shuts out

verb

present tense third-person singular of shut out

as in excludes

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 shuts out 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 Northgate edges Case Grande in baseball semifinal, shuts out Salesian to advance to softball final. —

Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 28 May 2026 Litigation brought by five Maryland independents is also challenging the constitutionality of a primary system that shuts out the very voters who fund it. —

Terry Lierman, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2026 Its dual processors and eight microphones power noise cancelation that shuts out nearly everything, while the 30mm drivers deliver balanced, detailed sound. —

PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025

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That figure excludes his work with the boy band Take That, which has also ruled.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
The ordinance included language that excludes equestrian events, as well as American Indian, Native American, Indigenous Rodeo, Mexican Charreria and Escaramuza events that don’t involve the activities cited in the law.

— Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026