blacklist
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Sheinbaum vehemently denied any attempt to compile a blacklist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
It warned investors that the blacklist "may subject us to increased scrutiny and potential further government actions".
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
While the blacklist does not freeze finances immediately, it triggers a brutal operational penalty on 30 June.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
I remember thinking her diatribe about the injustice of Hester Prynne’s shunning would segue into the cruelties Charles faced with the goal of inspiring someone to defy the blacklist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Those who were able to evade the bitter blacklist were compelled to surrender their union cards and to return to work under conditions that are a shame and a disgrace.
From The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster
Neither do potential blacklists or liability rules reportedly aimed at Chinese models whose weights anyone can download.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
In the 1950s, the rise of McCarthyism saw it used to accuse suspected communists of plotting against America, resulting in the Hollywood blacklists.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2025
Last year, after Ozturk authored an op-ed critical of Israel, her profile appeared on Canary Mission, a website that blacklists people and groups it accuses of antisemitism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
He said the Taliban’s foreign outreach is hampered by blacklists preventing officials from traveling, and by lacking common ground with the rest of the world.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
Many of the States, usually Western States—apt to be more forgetful of the common law than the older Commonwealths—have been at pains to pass statutes against blacklists.
From Popular Law-making by Frederic Jesup Stimson
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