preclude

Example Sentences

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That could preclude many policies to increase housing supply, which most economists agree is the strongest way to make homes more affordable.

From Barron's

“If the merger does occur, nothing precludes the department from taking an enforcement action in the future if anticompetitive effects are found,” the spokeswoman said.

From The Wall Street Journal

It also isn’t clear that the Donroe Doctrine precludes interventions outside the Western Hemisphere.

From The Wall Street Journal

"But enjoyment does not preclude critique. And what the show reveals is that gay storytelling today is limited not so much by social acceptance as by the narrow stories it keeps repeating."

From BBC

David Loy, legal director of the First Amendment Coalition, said that the federal prosecution of a man accused of starting the earlier blaze does not preclude the department from discussing its actions surrounding both fires.

From Los Angeles Times