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rules in

rules in is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 rules in

What is rules in the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rules in is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rule in.

Words near rules in in the dictionary

  1. rules and regulations
  2. rules are made to be broken
  3. rules are meant to be broken
  4. rules are rules
  5. rules are there to be broken
  6. rules in
  7. rules is rules
  8. rules lawyer
  9. rules lawyered
  10. rules lawyering
  11. rules lawyers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rules 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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