preclude

Example Sentences

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Along with all the other abuses uncovered during the Watergate era, new rules governing the FBI were put in place to preclude such abuses from happening again.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026

Gustav von Aschenbach might be a literary light of early 20th-century Munich, but that doesn’t preclude him from wanting a break from workaday life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

“These standards would also preclude the use of proven technologies that fuel global shipping fleets, including lower emissions options where U.S. industry leads, such as LNG.”

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

"At that point an offshore worker who weighs over 124 kg will not get their medical and that will preclude them from getting on a helicopter."

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

High reliefs largely preclude this kind of pictorialism.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson