close the door on

Example Sentences

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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 the UK government's Welsh secretary Jo Stevens seemed to close the door on that idea when she was asked about it in Parliament earlier this month.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2024

I close the door on the bellowing choir.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari