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Ivorians are preparing to vote in presidential elections on Saturday amid rising tensions over the exclusion of opposition candidates and a government crackdown on dissent that has led to the arrest of more than 200 protesters this month.—Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2025 This test—steeped in the texts of the Great Tradition—pushes students and schools to treat assessments not as a bureaucratic hoop or a mechanism of exclusion, but as a gateway to deep, reflective learning and engagement with timeless lessons that form both mind and soul.—MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 Amazon inked an 11-year deal with the NBA for exclusive global rights to 66 regular-season games (with some country exclusions) starting with the 2025-26 season.—Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025 Matta-Clark may have felt some sense of communion with the taggers, whose rebellion against modern architecture and authority came out of the socioeconomic exclusion that defined their urban lives.—Antonio Sergio Bessa, Curbed, 20 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exclusion
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Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin exclusion-, exclusio, from excludere
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