out of the loop
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When Brockman said that he and Altman were going to meet former President Barack Obama, Dario got angry that he had been left out of the loop.
If one spouse exerts control and the other is disengaged or kept out of the loop, filing tax returns can inflame tensions and drive a wedge into the relationship.
From MarketWatch
Even the agency’s top official is out of the loop until a couple of days before the release.
Your ISP is cut out of the loop, but it will still know you’re using Tor.
From Salon
To open up the Library of Congress to “scrapers” and other AI programs would possibly make such information even more easily accessible, but just as likely it would “take the man out of the loop,” to borrow a phrase that military specialists use to describe the automation of weapons systems.
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