boycott
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In one food group I follow, posts about AI restaurant marketing increasingly read like miniature boycott pledges.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
A massive family-owned winery spanning San Joaquin and Sacramento counties is for sale after struggling to survive the Canadian boycott of U.S. alcohol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
But after threatening to boycott events in the Netherlands after being roundly booed by the crowd during his last-16 win over Nathan Aspinall, the Warrington-based player failed to produce his best darts against Clayton.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Grindr’s efforts to court advertisers are still being complicated by brand controversies going back to the 2023 Bud Light boycott, CEO George Arison said Tuesday at Fast Company’s Innovation Festival in New York City.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
When King started the 1956 Birmingham bus boycott, Moore had urged his friend to take the action nationwide, but King was not prepared to lead a mass movement at the time.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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“Members of the television press pool have boycotted covering White House events. Group boycotts among commercial competitors can violate the Sherman Act,” Justice Department spokeswoman Emily Covington said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
"As soon as we have a situation of pressure and boycotts, we always break out and look for other markets," he tells me.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The boycotts since then have erased roughly $360 million in revenue for the U.S. wine industry, according to a Wine Institute report, which represents California wineries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Boycotts can beget other boycotts, so there could be global risk to sales of U.S. business jets depending on how sentiment and behaviors change,” Capital Alpha said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
I can’t help it; despite warnings and ghosts and shaky boycotts and cataclysmic girl-destroying exhalations, I lie down, rest my head on Oscar’s pillow, and breathe in the faint scent of him: peppery, sunny, wonderful.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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Justice Department spokeswoman Emily Covington told the Times and the Washington Post that the five networks -- ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News -- had "boycotted covering White House events."
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
England boycotted their fixture against Zimbabwe in Harare at the 2003 World Cup - a decision which ultimately derailed their campaign.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Ordinary Canadians have even boycotted U.S. products and avoided taking vacations here in solidarity.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
Nationals was held in Chicago in 1967, he boycotted the singles event until 1972, when he returned and won the title four years in a row.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Chief Buthelezi also boycotted the talks on the grounds that he was not permitted three delegations: for Inkatha, the KwaZulu government, and King Zwelithini.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Meanwhile, university students in several other Albanian towns were boycotting classes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
One of the world's biggest K-pop groups, Stray Kids, are joining BTS in boycotting the 2027 Grammy Awards.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Locals are furious and have been boycotting it out of principle.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
The amounts aren’t punitive, but they essentially function as a tax-code tariff on doing business in the boycotting country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
In 1980, when we were still in Kabul, the U.S. announced it would be boycotting the Olympic Games in Moscow.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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