exclusionary

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Some are backing away from exclusionary discipline like suspensions and expulsions and have embraced schoolwide approaches that reward positive behavior and provide social skills practice through games and role-playing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

"Instead of openness, cooperation and outward focus, the environment has too often felt toxic, exclusionary and deeply disheartening."

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

What he had originally understood as a welcoming LGBTQ+ community now felt exclusionary and hostile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

As the castle doctrine spread across the English colonies, including North America, it took its essential exclusionary principles with it.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2025

Maybe you spend three years in Massachusetts, studying constitutional law and discussing the relative merits of exclusionary vertical agreements in antitrust cases.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama