blackball
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Ms McKinney said modelling opportunities began to decline for her and she believed Mr Combs used his influence to "blackball" her in the industry.
From BBC ● May 22, 2024
“Bye, bye,” Ms. Wiles posted on Sunday on social media about her erstwhile boss, who had tried to blackball her from Republican politics.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Daniels told “Raq Rants” in 2018 that he did not blackball Mo’Nique.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2022
Regarding the charge from many of his accusers that he threatened to derail their careers if they spoke out: “I couldn’t blackball anybody, because if I said, ‘Don’t use that actress’ .
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2020
Early in his career Owen used his influence at the Zoological Society to blackball a young man named Robert Grant whose only crime was to have shown promise as a fellow anatomist.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
While that blackballs the firms, it does not ban all business dealings, the report added.
From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2022
I buy licorice whips, jelly beans, many-layered blackballs with the seed in the middle, packages of fizzy sherbet you suck up through a straw.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Six blackballs shall exclude, and at least one-third of the members must vote in the affirmative to elect.
From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various
Two blackballs are sufficient to cause the rejection of a candidate.
From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Wallace Morgan
And the longer they have gone before the more likely he is to receive no blackballs.
From The Country House by John Galsworthy
That will make it possible to identify potential vetoes but not which country blackballed any given candidate.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
In an unpublished article titled “Das Kannibal,” Mitchell wrote angrily about being blackballed for speaking out against the war.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
A few weeks ago, Murphy made headlines for a "rumor" that spread in which "AHS" crew members were told that they'd be "blackballed" if they didn't cross picket lines.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 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
And the reason for that compulsive work ethic was her unofficial blackballing by “Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson, for the crime of accepting Fox's offer to host her own talk show.
From Salon ● May 14, 2025
“They face industry blackballing and fewer professional opportunities when they speak out,” Williams said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
He won a multimillion-dollar settlement in 2019 after he accused the league of blackballing him because of his protests.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2020
Leger’s blackballing might have something do with the controversies over control of the convention center’s funds, but we can’t know that because of the secrecy surrounding Peterson’s actions.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 10, 2020
The blackballing was Bagenal Daly's doing—" "So I heard," interrupted the other; "they told me that; and here, look here, here's Daly's bond for four thousand six hundred.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
