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blacklist

[blak-list] / ˈblΓ¦kˌlΙͺst /


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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

It warned investors that the blacklist "may subject us to increased scrutiny and potential further government actions".

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The companies have denied any such allegations, while Alibaba this week sued the US government in a bid to get its name removed from the Pentagon blacklist.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

We are opposed to government by injunction; we denounce the blacklist, and favor arbitration as a means of settling disputes between corporations and their employes.

From A History of the Republican Party by George Washington Platt

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

He said the Taliban’s foreign outreach is hampered by blacklists preventing officials from traveling, and by lacking common ground with the rest of the world.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023

The blacklists, naming consumers who'd withheld dated gifts from the Potlatch Pyres of earlier years, were brought up to date and distributed to the Reserve BSG Officers in each township of Winfree's District.

From The Great Potlatch Riots by Allen Kim Lang




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