close the door on
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The latest agreement does not close the door on AI, but it does introduce new protections.
From Barron's ● May 30, 2026
“We wanted to focus on that very recent, very tangible and particularly gross injustice, which doesn’t close the door on revisiting other commutations in prior eras and in prior administrations,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2025
Here on the ground in Tampa, though, it hasn’t been quite so easy to close the door on Milton.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024
But Riley wouldn’t close the door on the quarterback competition, either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
They hurried to close the door on the real Mafalda; Harry and Ron threw the Invisibility Cloak over themselves but Hermione remained in view, waiting.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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