exclusion

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Recent Examples of exclusion Protests broke out in the East African nation during and after the vote last Wednesday as demonstrators voiced outrage over the exclusion of Hassan’s main rivals. Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025 For example, Kathy Garner, the head of a Mississippi nonprofit, said officials asked her to defend the exclusion of men from a program to shelter women who experienced domestic violence. Amy Maxmen, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2025 The dogs currently living in the exclusion zone — which CFF estimates to be over 700 — are the descendants of the dogs left behind in 1986. Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025 Tensions surrounding this election reflect deeper frustration over economic stagnation, political exclusion, and rising authoritarianism in a country that has not seen a peaceful transfer of power since independence. Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exclusion
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Noun
  • Neither Father Burke or Sister Irene realize it at the end of the movie, but Valak evades banishment by possessing Frenchie.
    Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The autocratic czarist regime ruled with an iron hand and suppressed opposition through censorship, banishment, and executions.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Dissenting opinion brings ostracism, loss of work and grants and friendships.
    Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But this ostracism has also been felt more widely across Israeli society, including among the large numbers of Israelis who oppose the war.
    Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Parents said they were told the dismissal was not the result of criminal wrongdoing or abuse allegations.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Nov. 2025
  • That immediate dismissal stirred up a new determination within the aspiring firefighter.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025

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“Exclusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclusion. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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