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Was her exclusion from the political world not its own kind of tyranny?
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Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
Their only hope is that more bubble teams lose, zero bid stealers lose, and maybe the committee even feels bad for leaving Darian DeVries out of the field last year, when DeVries’ West Virginia team was a shocking exclusion.
—Jim Root, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Coverage quality, limits and exclusions have the most weight in our ratings, accounting for 34% of our overall score.
—Dan Simms, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026
The demographics in Rockridge — where, by the last Census count, 69% of residents are white, compared to 29% of Oakland as a whole — can be traced back to a history of racial exclusion.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
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Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
Their only hope is that more bubble teams lose, zero bid stealers lose, and maybe the committee even feels bad for leaving Darian DeVries out of the field last year, when DeVries’ West Virginia team was a shocking exclusion.
—Jim Root, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Coverage quality, limits and exclusions have the most weight in our ratings, accounting for 34% of our overall score.
—Dan Simms, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026
The demographics in Rockridge — where, by the last Census count, 69% of residents are white, compared to 29% of Oakland as a whole — can be traced back to a history of racial exclusion.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
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“Exclusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exclusion. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
Copy CitationMedical Definition
exclusion
noun
ex·clu·sion
iks-ˈklü-zhən 
: surgical separation of part of an organ from the rest without excision
Legal Definition
exclusion
noun
ex·clu·sion
ik-ˈsklü-zhən
1
: the act of excluding or state of being excluded
specifically
: refusal of entry into the U.S. by immigration officials
review of deportation and exclusion orders
compare deportation
2
: something that excludes or is excluded: as
a
: a part of an insurance contract that excludes specified risks from coverage compare condition, declaration
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