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ruled in

ruled in is the simple past and past participle of rule in.

Meaning of rule in

Verb

rule in (third-person singular simple present rules in, present participle ruling in, simple past and past participle ruled in)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To consider (something) as a possible option among others.
    • It was coming from a credible source, someone with a track record, someone who was a credible and respected member of an allied intelligence service during his career, and so it was important that we try to understand it, and see what could we verify, what could we rule in or rule out.2018 April 15, James Comey, “ABC News interview with George Stephanopoulos”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
    Synonyms:
    consider

Questions about ruled in

What is ruled in the simple past and past participle of?
Ruled in is the simple past and past participle of rule in.

Words near ruled in in the dictionary

  1. rulebound
  2. rulebreaker
  3. rulebreakers
  4. rulebreaking
  5. ruled
  6. ruled in
  7. ruled off
  8. ruled OK
  9. ruled on
  10. ruled out
  11. ruled surface directrices

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ruled in (page history and authors); rule in (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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