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"refrained from including" is a grammatically correct phrase which can be used in written English
This phrase is typically used to indicate that something was intentionally left out of something else. For example, "The author refrained from including any personal information in his book."
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Mr. Balanchine deliberately refrained from including "Stars and Stripes" in the tour, because he feared that the ballet might be misunderstood as a political statement.
Because headache on ≥15 days/month could be assessed reliably only in the second study, we refrained from including it in statistical significance analyses.
In contrast, the deed on the protection of children does mention human rights in its main provisions, but restricts commitment to respect for the rights to life, human dignity and development (Geneva Call 2013b, preamble).26 It is of course understandable that Geneva Call refrained from including a fuller range of human rights in the deed.
We finally refrained from including the FRAX algorithm in the study, because it failed to provide the minimum of information.
Therefore, we refrained from including "decision making" in our definition.
We refrained from including the GbX-2 proteins of the ghost shark and sea lamprey because of the incompleteness of the data.
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Other media outlets - including the BBC - refrained from publishing them to avoid causing offence to their audiences.
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The president, in fact, pointedly refrained from repeating that formula.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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