exclude
verb (used with object)
to shut or keep out; prevent the entrance of.
have excluded
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present perfectof exclude.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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However, the authors note that this choice could also have excluded some genuinely weak extraterrestrial signals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
For stakeholder talks held in February, the report found most of those invited were "industry representatives," and that the commission "might have excluded" other potentially interested parties.
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
That would have excluded two-thirds of the county’s roughly 3,000 voters.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
“We must exist because churches in general have excluded the poor,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
He pretends, indeed, to have excluded from all the letters he published every thing personal or confidential.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
