blackballed
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In an unpublished article titled “Das Kannibal,” Mitchell wrote angrily about being blackballed for speaking out against the war.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025
She also said he had subsequently "blackballed" her in the modelling world.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2024
It happened after a Muhammad Ali fight back in 1970 when he couldn’t get sanctioned to fight anywhere; he’d been blackballed because of his stance against the Vietnam War.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2024
Afterward he was blackballed in the industry, and invested most of his settlement in a producing a play he wrote that flopped.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2023
If he’s not careful, he’ll be blackballed by his state medical association and kept out of the hospitals.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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