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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of gatekeep.

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Examples

  • And, can Young Adult Literature -- a "gatekept" genre -- be seen in its relationship to "Grown-up" books as an analogue AND outgrowth of the Chicago Trying To Control And One-Up New York tension?

    My Heart Leaps Up Roger Sutton 2006

  • In "The Social Journal," a presentation I gave for publishers in 2006, I argued that in becoming disciplinary markers and quality arbiters, journals gave up the power and usefulness of unmediated, un-gatekept communication, and that is what researchers are now finding on the Web.

    Confessions of a Science Librarian 2008

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