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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the Amish do not foreclose on unpaid loans.
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Changes in industry and in the economy foreclosed many unskilled and semiskilled jobs to those under age 16.
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He must, in any event, have felt that the pressures were foreclosing the issue against his original instinct.
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It foreclosed on the mortgages, and the mill went down the drain.
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It is perfectly rational for individual banks to want to foreclose early on companies having trouble repaying their loans.
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Moreover, demographic factors such as unplanned pregnancy may also foreclose options.
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Mortgages were foreclosed, and rents went unpaid.
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On television especially, the use of quick-cut images and short sound bites tends to foreclose reasoned reflection and time-consuming deliberation.