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exclusion

/ɪksˈkluːʒən/ noun B2
  1. The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part. (countable, uncountable)
  2. An item not covered by an insurance policy. (countable, uncountable)

Plural exclusions

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That thought was doomed to haunt Anne through the waking hours of that winter, Sunday afternoons inclusive, to the almost entire exclusion of moral and theological problems.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 262 · C1
Darcy stood near them in silent indignation at such a mode of passing the evening, to the exclusion of all conversation, and was too much engrossed by his own thoughts to perceive that Sir William Lucas was his neighbour, till Sir William thus began:--
Pride and Prejudice, p. 26 · B2
The exclusion from his clubs would mean ruin to Moran, who lived by his ill-gotten card-gains.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 32 · C1
By the method of exclusion, I had arrived at this result, for no other hypothesis would meet the facts.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 82 · B2

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