The phrase "adjusted to exclude" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a modification or change made to a set of data or criteria to remove certain elements or factors.
Example: "The final report was adjusted to exclude any outliers that could skew the results."
Alternatives: "modified to omit" or "altered to leave out".
Too bad shareholders' returns can't be similarly adjusted to exclude the restructuring charges their companies take.
Analysts monitor Vivendi's preferred measure of profitability, which is adjusted to exclude most nonrecurring and nonoperating items.
Earnings adjusted to exclude items increased to $36.9 million, or 17 cents a share, from $24.5 million, or 12 cents a share, a year earlier.
In describing how one executive's bonus was calculated, it said: "Too bad shareholders' returns can't be similarly adjusted to exclude the restructuring charges their companies take".
-Ends- Note to editors * Reported EBITDA before exceptional items of £ 68.7 m (2015: £ 39.8 m) has been adjusted to exclude non-trading, one-off items to derive an underlying trading EBITDA performance of £ 62.6 m (2015: £ 38.8 m).
The company's overall first-quarter results were adjusted to exclude one-time-only costs from acquisitions, and they assume that the oil reserves can be replaced at current prices.
Adjusting to exclude gains from favorable foreign currency exchange rates, sales rose 35.0%.
Position and size of the PRESS box with outer volume suppressed were adjusted to partly exclude subcutaneous fat without excluding brain tissue.
After the growth start, initiated at 450°C for 3 min, the final growth temperature was adjusted to 400°C, to exclude almost completely additional VS growth on the nanowire side facets [20].
Numbers are also skewed when they are adjusted to include or exclude women not of reproductive age; for sodomy and other forms of rape that cannot cause pregnancy; for rape victims who may be using oral birth control or I.U.D.s; and for women who are raped and become or are pregnant as a result of consensual sex with a husband or partner who is not the rapist, before or after the rape.
(b) The average rate shall be adjusted downward to exclude any non-compliant emissions that occurred while the source was operating above an emission limitation that was legally enforceable during the consecutive 24-month period.
