preclude
verb (used with object)
to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible.
were precluding
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past progressiveof preclude.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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What was Twitter doing while these spam accounts were precluding the actual protest footage from being found?
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2022
