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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exclude.

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  • This term excludes structures that might have been covered by the original claim language, because the “support body” of the old claim . . . was only required to “support said lightly doped major body portion,” not necessarily to touch it.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Peter Zura 2008

  • This term excludes structures that might have been covered by the original claim language, because the “support body” of the old claim . . . was only required to “support said lightly doped major body portion,” not necessarily to touch it.

    Once Again: Claim Amendment Sinks DOE Peter Zura 2008

  • Besides which, he goes on to mention that mutations in the upper part of the pathway, which he inexplicably excludes from the part he declares as IC, are the major causes of hemophilia in humans.

    Behe's Test, Take 2 2008

  • It's debatable whether the data Charter is collecting is "personally identifiable information" under this statute, which excludes from the definition "any record of aggregate data which does not identify particular persons."

    UPDATE: Charter Will Track Your Internet Activity Regardless Of Whether You Opt Out - The Consumerist 2008

  • It also excludes from the SF fold stories whose point is to logically extrapolate from some fiddling with natural law -- I mean a novel about a box that adjusts the gravitational constant should be shelved in fantasy?

    MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2) 2008

  • Please note: The number of 2025 delegates required to win excludes Michigan and Florida.

    Polls: Clinton and Obama each in store for a win? 2008

  • It also specifically excludes from the discussion courses that include Shakespeare among others, so a course devoted to English writing of the Elizabethan era, for example, does not count.

    Getting the Shakes Roger Sutton 2007

  • It also specifically excludes from the discussion courses that include Shakespeare among others, so a course devoted to English writing of the Elizabethan era, for example, does not count.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Roger Sutton 2007

  • He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, which according to the encyclopedia's criteria is (just barely) in the region, but he moved at seven to Kansas City, Missouri, which the encyclopedia excludes from the Great Plains.

    Cheap at $13,000 2004

  • He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, which according to the encyclopedia's criteria is (just barely) in the region, but he moved at seven to Kansas City, Missouri, which the encyclopedia excludes from the Great Plains.

    Cheap at $13,000 2004

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