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to keep from happening by taking action in advance
issued a strict schedule for doing household chores so as to preclude any arguments
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Recent Examples of precluded
Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
Alfred McCoy, Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
The Heat schedule precluded more organizational presence, with the team hosting the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night at Kaseya Center, where the court a year ago was named in Riley’s honor, and then returning for a practice there Monday ahead of a two-game trip.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2026
Health has precluded that in the past.
—Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
Years after his involvement in the Davis case, Zuley went to Guantanamo Bay on a special assignment while called into duty as a lieutenant in the Navy Reserve, though Garrett’s defense attorneys were precluded from questioning him about his time at the detention center.
—Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
While a handful of hospitals reinstated the care after a short pause, that hasn’t precluded some from suspending it again under further federal pressure, as Children’s Hospital Colorado did last month.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 5 Feb. 2026
The companies contend those claims can’t proceed because they are precluded by federal law.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2026
In 1898, which was only thirty years after the amendment was ratified, the Supreme Court ruled definitively on the meaning of that phrase in the case of Wong Kim Ark, a man born in California to Chinese immigrants who were precluded from becoming citizens by the Chinese Exclusion Act.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
Sadly, the filming location of Winnipeg precluded any Holiday World cameos in the final cut.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 25 Nov. 2025
Adjective
Over the ensuing decades—and fully informed of the substantial executive power exercised by the Commission—the Supreme Court has repeatedly and expressly left Humphrey's Executor in place, and so precluded Presidents from removing Commissioners at will.
—Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
Reflecting the global reach of American hegemony, as well as the way the bureaucratic style of Soviet espionage precluded such individual initiative, eighteen of these thirty operatives were Americans.
—Alfred McCoy, Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
The Heat schedule precluded more organizational presence, with the team hosting the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night at Kaseya Center, where the court a year ago was named in Riley’s honor, and then returning for a practice there Monday ahead of a two-game trip.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2026
Health has precluded that in the past.
—Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
Years after his involvement in the Davis case, Zuley went to Guantanamo Bay on a special assignment while called into duty as a lieutenant in the Navy Reserve, though Garrett’s defense attorneys were precluded from questioning him about his time at the detention center.
—Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
While a handful of hospitals reinstated the care after a short pause, that hasn’t precluded some from suspending it again under further federal pressure, as Children’s Hospital Colorado did last month.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 5 Feb. 2026
The companies contend those claims can’t proceed because they are precluded by federal law.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2026
In 1898, which was only thirty years after the amendment was ratified, the Supreme Court ruled definitively on the meaning of that phrase in the case of Wong Kim Ark, a man born in California to Chinese immigrants who were precluded from becoming citizens by the Chinese Exclusion Act.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
Sadly, the filming location of Winnipeg precluded any Holiday World cameos in the final cut.
—Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 25 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for precluded
Verb
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Firearm safety activists say the shootings could have been prevented by following Michigan's safe storage law.—
Heath Kalb,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
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However, the contract included non-disparagement and binding arbitration clauses which would have prevented the siblings from going to the police with their allegations or suing the Jackson estate in open court.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
3 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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One clip appears to show a Waymo vehicle stopped while other vehicles illegally pass a stopped bus.—
Karoline Leonard,
Austin American Statesman,
15 Jan. 2026
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That's when a 51-year-old woman driving a Tesla south on Highway 85 struck the Focus, causing both cars to spin and crash into a stopped semi-truck.—
Austen Erblat,
CBS News,
31 Dec. 2025
Verb
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In Connecticut and across New England, where talk of electricity tends to turn on highest-in-the-nation rates, the potential cold weather energy emergency faced by customers elsewhere was averted, but that success comes with a warning.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
8 Feb. 2026
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After hours of House of Commons debate, a vote was averted when the government gave in to lawmakers' anger and agreed that the Intelligence and Security Committee would decide what papers should be published, rather than a senior civil servant as Starmer had proposed.—
JILL LAWLESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Precluded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precluded. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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