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Recent Examples of exclude People are being systematically and deliberately excluded by the very entities that have sworn to care for them. E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025 The robot secretary Bibo, who in the show famously wants to become an actor himself, was completely excluded from the lineup. Tom Smyth, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025 Some agencies have identified specific roles or offices that are excluded from the deal. Andrea Hsu, NPR, 8 Apr. 2025 Yet despite their central role, many remain excluded from innovation pipelines and policy design. Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exclude
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Verb
  • The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to eliminate its scientific research office, potentially firing more than 1,000 scientists and employees.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Vietnam offer to drop tariffs not enough On Monday morning, Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro said on CNBC even Vietnam's offer to eliminate tariffs on U.S. imports would not be enough for the administration to lift its new levies announced last week.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
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  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths annually in the U.S. Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California, banned the sale of most tobacco products beginning in 2021.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Certain artificial dyes used in the U.S. are banned or subject to warning labels in other countries.
    Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Louisiana’s legislation might also violate the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits laws that retroactively increase the severity of a person’s criminal sentence, according to several legal scholars.
    Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2025
  • That goal is also the impetus behind Senate Bill 19, legislation that would prohibit taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for contract lobbyists.
    Patrick Gleason, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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  • Such defenses include profiling victims before an attack is mounted, and can even provide an escape path to a benign alternative to prevent the threat being flagged.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Rather than address the underlying medical issues that prevent conception, IVF acts as a Band-Aid solution, artificially fertilizing eggs outside the womb in a laboratory.
    John Oertle, National Review, 6 Apr. 2025
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  • Tom Brenner | Reuters A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the White House cannot bar Associated Press reporters and photographers from the Oval Office, Air Force One, and other secure spaces where journalists from other media outlets are admitted.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025
  • These organizations, which had lofty names such as the Great Northwest Improvement Association and West Altadena Improvement Association, urged homeowners to write language into their deeds that would bar Black, Latino or Asian tenants from buying or renting there.
    Calvin Schermerhorn, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025

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“Exclude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclude. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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