exclusionary
Example Sentences
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What he had originally understood as a welcoming LGBTQ+ community now felt exclusionary and hostile.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
As the castle doctrine spread across the English colonies, including North America, it took its essential exclusionary principles with it.
From Slate • Oct. 23, 2025
It’s easy to blame this lack of welcome on exclusionary, or perhaps just plain snobby, elites.
From Salon • Sep. 17, 2025
The order, she said, “undermines decades of progress and goes against a large body of research that shows that punitive, exclusionary discipline does not work.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025
Social pressures, stereotypes, and changing attitudes and perspectives can inhibit inclusion and lead to exclusionary practice.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
