preclude

The narrow ruling did not preclude her eventual removal.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

The judge also could dismiss the case “with prejudice,” which would preclude future charges for the same alleged conduct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

Experts noted that the agreement does not preclude companies from using fossil fuels to meet growing energy demand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

An examination was quietly begun by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency off the bank premises to preclude local panic.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

He compressed the time-scale to such an extent that, watching the movie, one is drawn into a gathering tide of events that precludes reflection or analysis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

But as a matter of law, the TPS statute precludes judicial review.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

It feels then something like that classic philosophical paradox of an immovable object encountering an unstoppable force: logically impossible because the existence of one precludes the other.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

Powell sticking it out, even for a few more months, precludes that option.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

“Absolutely. Owls are wise. They are carefu and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

According to the article, the design at the time precluded development on the eagles’ lakefront hunting grounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Reading the Westfall Act with close “attention to its text,” he concluded, shows that Congress has not precluded laws like Maine’s.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026

I could have claimed Austrian retirement on my 65th birthday in 2023, but concerns about the Windfall Elimination Provision interfering with my Social Security benefits precluded this.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025

One habit that precluded improvement was their reading of trivial romantic novels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Ann Atwater grew up poor, black, and female in the mid-twentieth-century South, all circumstances that precluded her from buying into the myths that beguiled C.P.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Under the provisions of the 1998 Northern Ireland Act, regulations governing the flag had become "a transferred prerogative matter", precluding Her Majesty's "command on flags … having any legal effect in Northern Ireland".

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025

“What they want to do is get people up and running to start building the bank, rather than precluding people at the front end,” Portilla said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

By comparison, even the best available practical hydrogen storage tanks allow the gas to leak out at a rate of about 1 percent per day, precluding any uses that would require year-long storage, Li says.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023

"I don't talk just to hear myself. I'm precluding you from doing this," Engoron said.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2023

Whether one agrees with this approach or not, the building testifies to the strength of Wright’s vision by precluding any other way of seeing the art.

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