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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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Father said the one thing did not preclude the other.† (source)
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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)precluded = kept from happening or arising
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This not only precluded further pagan challenges to Christianity, but now the followers of Christ were able to redeem themselves only via the established sacred channel—the Roman Catholic Church.† (source)
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Sometimes all one really had to go on was a family resemblance — and such resemblances, of course, never precluded the unlikely but hardly impossible coincidence of bastardy.† (source)precluded = kept from happening or arising
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Such an arrangement wouldn't preclude a cash bribe.† (source)
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The problem of a forced boarding precludes that—makes it impossible?† (source)precludes = keeps from happening or arising
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"Something's wrong with a society," I've told Candy more than once, "that has a system precluding these people from achieving.† (source)precluding = keeping something from happening or arising
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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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Their programming would have precluded this.† (source)precluded = kept from happening or arising
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The fact that they were of like mind on most matters military and political, and got along well, seemed to preclude the friction and jealousies between the Royal Navy and the army frequently endemic to such joint operations.† (source)
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Wisdom precludes boldness.† (source)precludes = keeps from happening or arising
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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)precluding = keeping something from happening or arising
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His work in Medusa precluded any sustained career in the State Department.† (source)precluded = kept from happening or arising
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