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'rule out' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'rule out' with 5 example sentences.


rule out verb

: make impossible, especially beforehand

: include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules

: dismiss from consideration or a contest


  • This possibility cannot be ruled out.
  • We cannot rule out the possibility of an accident.
  • The police haven't ruled out suicide.
  • I haven't ruled out doing that.
  • The IMF ruled out any new loans to that country.
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