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blacklist

[blak-list] / ˈblækˌlɪst /


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In February, the Pentagon added Chinese technology heavyweights including Alibaba to a blacklist of Chinese military contractors, and immediately retracted it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

At the same time, frightened sailors who don't fulfil their contracts by abandoning ship will have difficulties finding future employment as shipping companies may blacklist them.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

The company is also dealing with the fallout of its dispute with the U.S. government, which decided to blacklist Anthropic on Friday and to designate the company a supply-chain risk from a national-security perspective.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

Developers of ChatGLM, a top Chinese model, say in a research paper that companies sometimes deal with this issue by filtering sensitive keywords and webpages from a pre-defined blacklist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

There are ways of putting a laborer on the blacklist.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine




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