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a housing market that effectively freezes out people of moderate means
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Moreover, these dark spots are often flanked by bright streaks, a product of winds flowing over the storms and freezing out methane ice crystals that glint.
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Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
To compensate for this failure, the central bank relied on selling bonds to boost foreign exchange reserves, a tactic that can work in normal times but tends to fail in times of crisis when countries are frozen out of capital markets.
—Dushni Weerakoon, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2022
Roman Polanski’s film An Officer and a Spy is to receive its UK premiere, five years after winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, and despite being frozen out of the UK and American film market due to the director’s criminal past.
—Caroline Frost, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024
The Rising Stars game began as the Rookie Challenge in 1994, putting the league’s newest players on display for several years until the 1999 lockout froze out the 1998 class that starred Vince Carter, Paul Pierce and Dirk Nowitzki.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 1 Oct. 2024
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Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
To compensate for this failure, the central bank relied on selling bonds to boost foreign exchange reserves, a tactic that can work in normal times but tends to fail in times of crisis when countries are frozen out of capital markets.
—Dushni Weerakoon, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2022
Roman Polanski’s film An Officer and a Spy is to receive its UK premiere, five years after winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, and despite being frozen out of the UK and American film market due to the director’s criminal past.
—Caroline Frost, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024
The Rising Stars game began as the Rookie Challenge in 1994, putting the league’s newest players on display for several years until the 1999 lockout froze out the 1998 class that starred Vince Carter, Paul Pierce and Dirk Nowitzki.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Freeze out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freeze%20out. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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