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Core CPI inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, came in at 2.9 percent in May, up from 2.8 percent the month before.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

The ordinance included language that excludes equestrian events, as well as American Indian, Native American, Indigenous Rodeo, Mexican Charreria and Escaramuza events that don’t involve the activities cited in the law.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

But the FAA expressly excludes from arbitration “contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.”

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

But an even more important metric for the Federal Reserve is core PCE, which excludes the more volatile categories of food and energy.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026

It thus systematically excludes from consideration the very feature which makes scientific arguments distinctive: their appeal to superior evidence.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton