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Recent Examples of lock out
Sam Sabin, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
For the longest time, anime was locked out from most international markets.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Carol Schram, Forbes, 2 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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Verb
Zoom in: Meta has started testing facial recognition to verify the identities of users who are locked out of their Facebook or Instagram accounts, Monika Bickert, Meta's vice president of content policy, told reporters.
—Sam Sabin, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
For the longest time, anime was locked out from most international markets.
—Ollie Barder, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Noun
But its expiry brought the mother of all lockouts, when the owners dug in on their demands for a hard-cap system.
—Carol Schram, Forbes, 2 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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Vampire bats typically fly near prey and then quickly walk or run on their thumbs and wrists to close in.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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Nick Seidler, 56, of Wauwatosa, MSOE coordinator of special events, was walking to work outside the polling place and said he was encouraged to see so many students voting.Madison Lammert, Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2024
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News in the sit-down, which was recorded on March 15.Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 22 Mar. 2023
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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.Jamila Stewart, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
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Some customers reported some difficulty with the frictionless payment system at the grab-and-go concession stands, unable to walk out at first as expected.Andrew Greif, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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And in January 2023, Duran walked out of prison a free man.Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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Gibbs said Taco Bell led the industry in the third quarter in value perception among all fast-food consumers, helping its sales even during an industrywide slowdown.Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
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When Is the Earliest the 2024 Election Can Be Called? Election Day has previously morphed into election week in 2020 with an influx of mail-in and early ballots due to the COVID-19 pandemic causing major slowdowns in vote counting and reporting election results.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Advertisement The contract’s ratification on the eve of election day clears the way for a major U.S. manufacturer and government contractor to restart Pacific Northwest assembly lines that the factory worker walkouts had idled for 53 days.David Koenig, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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During the costly walkout, Boeing's CEO announced the company would slash 10% of its workforce, roughly 17,000 workers, and would delay deliveries of its 777X jet until 2026.Axios, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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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.Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
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Effective immediately, all current job actions will cease and all work covered by the Master Contract will resume.Jay Peters, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2024
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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.Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
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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.Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024
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Fortune Making robo-taxis a real business A go-slow approach is helping Waymo, Google’s self-driving car project, as faster-moving competitors like Uber and GM’s Cruise stall after high-profile accidents.Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 30 May 2024
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Kyiv has often been the most vocal critic of the go-slow approach to delivering aid.Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
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“Lock out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lock%20out. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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