black list
Example Sentences
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Saturated fat has been taken off the black list.
From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026
North Korea and Iran remain the only two countries on the FATF’s high-risk black list.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2021
House managers maintain a black list of those who don’t wear the proper clothes, follow directives, show enough initiative, arrive on time or at all.
From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2018
Those on Beijing’s black list, the officials said, include the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and two leaders of the World Uyghur Congress, Dolkun Isa and Rebiya Kadeer.
From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2015
Among what you call the occasional, or black list, I have seen Memoirs of Dean Swift, Pope, &c.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac