preclusion
- a word derived from preclude.
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 prosecutor in charge, with total autonomy and independence and attentive to criteria of legal impartiality and probatory objectivity, considers that the grounds for preclusion have been met," it added.
From Reuters • Aug. 1, 2022
How could she engage in ritual, a shared family practice of eating, with such an encompassing dietary preclusion?
From Salon • Aug. 31, 2021
He pays extra special attention to the technical questions around claim preclusion and whether a doctrine known as res judicata bars the plaintiffs from even bringing this action in the first instance.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2016
"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)
