Sample Sentences forpreclude (editor-reviewed)
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The first amendment precludes Congress from passing laws that create a state religion.precludes = prevents
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But for the moment his sense of relief was so great as to preclude all other feelings. (source)preclude = keep from arising
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At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. (source)precluded = prevented (kept from arising)
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While the plane had heaters to preclude this, it is possible the heaters were not activated.† (source)
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Nicolo asked skeptically, in the way that people of suppressed dreams often preclude their own possibilities.† (source)
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In closing, let me add that I trust your future life will be more productive of happiness, than has been the recent past; and that the evening of your life will bring with it a serenity, which the vain and tempestuous passions of youth so often unfortunately, if not disastrously, preclude.† (source)
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Their programming would have precluded this.† (source)
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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.† (source)
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The problem of a forced boarding precludes that—makes it impossible?† (source)
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The scholarship would have obligated me to spend four years in military service after I finished college, precluding my chances to go on to medical school.† (source)
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After that he was downtown all day long, about the square, untalkative, dirty, with that furious and preclusive expression about the eyes which the people took for insanity: that quality of outworn violence like a scent, an odor; that fanaticism like a fading and almost extinct ember, of some kind of twofisted evangelism which had been one quarter violent conviction and three quarters physical hardihood.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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I knew I'd go to law school later the next year (my August graduation precluded a 2009 start to law school), so I moved home to save money.† (source)
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—accomplished with an instantaneousness so complete as to preclude even the onset of pain.† (source)
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I'm sorry, Ms. Solomon, doctor-patient confidentiality precludes me from discussing your brother's condition, and I've already said too much by admitting he is my patient.† (source)
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Lyndon Johnson returned the favor by issuing an executive order precluding Hoover from compulsory retirement, thus allowing the director to remain in charge of the FBI until his death in 1972 at the age of seventy-seven.† (source)
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It occurred to me that the business of surviving precluded a great many things, exploring and falling in love not least among them.† (source)
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