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Which period of history is famous for the Hollywood blacklist?

blacklist

[blak-list] / ˈblækˌlɪst /


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She directed the government to rescind all guidance, directives, communications, or instructions to blacklist and label Anthropic a supply-chain risk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Sheinbaum vehemently denied any attempt to compile a blacklist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Abusive air passengers could be put on a national blacklist and prevented from flying with any airline under a new government proposal.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

“You can imagine how companies are going to quickly blacklist, for lack of a better phrase, those sorts of consumers for trying to engage in that behavior,” Sudit said.

From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026

His fellow workers, living in constant terror of discharge and the blacklist, dare not even listen to him, much less defend his cause.

From The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster

The U.S. agreed to pause the implementation of a new rule, unveiled last month, that would add more Chinese firms to government blacklists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

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

Of those, just under a third are now on U.S blacklists.

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023

Matters concerning salaries should always be confidential, and so should personal items such as health reports, character references, and so on, credit reports, blacklists, and other information of a similar nature.

From The Book of Business Etiquette by Nella Henney


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