preclusion
Example Sentences
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Remember when Seattle was 29-39 after losing three in a row to the Angels and seemingly headed for another playoff preclusion?
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
"The chambers rejects the petition for preclusion of the investigation for the crimes of penal bribery and procedural fraud."
From Reuters ● Apr. 28, 2022
How could she engage in ritual, a shared family practice of eating, with such an encompassing dietary preclusion?
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2021
He pays extra special attention to the technical questions around claim preclusion and whether a doctrine known as res judicata bars the plaintiffs from even bringing this action in the first instance.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2016
"Miss Curwen treats me with friendliness--a jesting friendliness, which is the very preclusion of love."
From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason