Both Uses of
preclude
in
Cujo
- A failing out doesn't preclude a later rapprochement, his mind retorted with a kind of grave and implacable calm.†
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- — standing over the twisted and smashed thing in the driveway, striking it again and again with something that looked like a caveman's club ...that turned his fear to a bright, silvery panic that almost precluded thought.†
precluded = kept from happening or arising
Definition:
keep from happening or arising