preclude
verb (used with object)
to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible.
has precluded
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present perfectof preclude (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It said that had forced them "into fear, dishonesty and sometimes even hypocrisy, and which has precluded them from living public and honest lives of committed partnership".
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2021
Ex-Eastern Washington signal-caller Gage Gubrud arrived in time for camp, but an ankle injury has precluded him from participating in full.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2019
He has said the board’s “dysfunction has precluded it from being fiduciarily effective.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2017
The presence of civilians has precluded him from attacking one particular Islamic State checkpoint, he said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2015
The difficulty of conveying glass into the interior has precluded its use in the windows, where its place is poorly supplied by parchment, imperfectly made by the native women from the skin of the rein-deer.
From Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 by John Franklin
