verb · academic
exclude
/ɪksˈkluːd/ex·CLUDE
to leave something out or not include it
Examples
“The study excluded participants who had pre-existing health conditions.”
“You cannot be excluded from the statistics just because you refused to answer.”
“Certain costs were excluded from the final budget calculation.”
Band 8 sentence
“The methodology explicitly excluded data points that failed to meet the inclusion criteria.”
Collocations
- exclude from
- exclude certain factors
Word family
Common mistakes
The researchers excluded outliers to make data clearer.→The researchers excluded outliers to make the data clearer.
We exclude the students from list.→We exclude the students from the list.
Say it for a higher band
5leave out→6omit→7+exclude
Synonyms
omit
Easily confused
omit
“The researcher decided to omit certain responses from the appendix but did not exclude them from the analysis.”
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