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Which period of history is famous for the Hollywood blacklist?

blacklist

[blak-list] / ˈblΓ¦kˌlΙͺst /


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The Alfonso is included in a blacklist of vessels Iran claims have violated its rules in the Strait.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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

Abusive air passengers could be put on a national blacklist and prevented from flying with any airline under a new government proposal.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

Then to protect himself, Cordell told lies about Ben and got all of Riverview’s publishers to blacklist him!”

From Signal in the Dark by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

Neither do potential blacklists or liability rules reportedly aimed at Chinese models whose weights anyone can download.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

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

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

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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