precluded

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I could have claimed Austrian retirement on my 65th birthday in 2023, but concerns about the Windfall Elimination Provision interfering with my Social Security benefits precluded this.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 4, 2025

One habit that precluded improvement was their reading of trivial romantic novels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Even though the government did not clarify whether Vidovic had served his time, it said a criminal sentence precluded him from holding public office.

From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025

According to Crossley's essay, she initially aimed for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, but subsequent injuries to her back and brain precluded her from doing so.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024

Ann Atwater grew up poor, black, and female in the mid-twentieth-century South, all circumstances that precluded her from buying into the myths that beguiled C.P.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson