blacklist
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The ban puts the group on a blacklist that also includes Palestinian militants Hamas and the Lebanese Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
Sheinbaum vehemently denied any attempt to compile a blacklist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Commerce’s undersecretary for security, Alan Estevez, started the bureaucratic process for the blacklist, but got a call redirecting the path.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
While the blacklist does not freeze finances immediately, it triggers a brutal operational penalty on 30 June.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Scores of Everett citizens gave splendid assistance to the defense, asking only that their names be withheld on account of the Commercial Club blacklist.
From The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Walker C. Smith
Being added to these blacklists is a career-killer for cops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 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
One website, Canary Mission, blacklists those they accuse of being antisemitic.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
The buyer, a businessperson named Josef Liokumovich, passed the company’s background checks and was not on any financial blacklists.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2023
Even though Flint blacklists me all over the country, as he probably will, I can duck into some job or other, somewhere.
From The Air Trust by George Allan England
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