preclusion

Example Sentences

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Remember when Seattle was 29-39 after losing three in a row to the Angels and seemingly headed for another playoff preclusion?

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023

"The chambers rejects the petition for preclusion of the investigation for the crimes of penal bribery and procedural fraud."

From Reuters • Apr. 28, 2022

How could she engage in ritual, a shared family practice of eating, with such an encompassing dietary preclusion?

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2021

A prosecutorial investigation that begins with the preclusion of prosecution, Sensenbrenner said later, is just “fishing.”

From Slate • Jul. 24, 2019

"Miss Curwen treats me with friendliness--a jesting friendliness, which is the very preclusion of love."

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)