exclude
verb (used with object)
to shut or keep out; prevent the entrance of.
were excluding
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past progressiveof exclude.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Earlier this month, organisers announced they were excluding any country involved in an armed conflict from hosting the competition.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
So he undertook his own personal research project to determine if, in fact, other countries were excluding Georgia from their maps—mental and otherwise—of Europe.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2017
Essentially, we were excluding almost half the world’s population from production.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2013
He cited economic reforms now underway in Cuba to liberalize the island's Soviet-style economy and said the sanctions were "excluding the United States from the real process of change that is happening" there.
From Reuters ● Feb. 8, 2012
They were excluding all Socialists-Revolutionists and the Mensheviki, to say nothing of the People's Socialists and members of the Labor Group.
From The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto
