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Among them are white male entitlement versus the crushing demands of Black exceptionalism; the complicated bond linking fathers to sons; and the agonizing bravery required of mothers raising boys the world is conditioned to ostracize.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

When the Athenians voted to ostracize him, he became a Persian governor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

“It is never my intent to ostracize or diminish.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

Rather than ostracize the neighborhood’s teenagers, he wants to find ways to engage them and show them the value of being part of a culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

“Look, I wasn’t trying to ostracize anybody. It’s just that she — he lied about who he was.”

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

Will's signature swagger, which was once-revered in his old town, now ostracizes him from his peers and loved ones.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2022

The film portrays how Japanese society, often working like a claustrophobic village, ostracizes and punishes what it sees as erring individuals.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

Mesa County’s “siloed, non-collaborative behavior ostracizes us from our Western Slope neighbors,” she added.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2019

A man searches for answers a decade after his close-knit high school clique inexplicably ostracizes him.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2014

The public condemns and ostracizes a man, even though he has lived an upright life all his days, when some scalawag, for personal or financial reasons, assails him in a newspaper.

From Watch Yourself Go By by Ben W. Warden

The actor complained that for a time, he was “relatively ostracized locally.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

And now, all of these years later, you feel ostracized from your remaining family and, more than that, you were left with a few mementoes of those formative years and no inheritance.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

Being ostracized isn’t just losing the camaraderie of co-workers — it’s losing a family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Individuals all over the country were fired from their jobs, shunned, ostracized and run out of town for insufficient reverence for Kirk on social media.

From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2026

My mother had a very difficult time in those early years of marriage; she was a teenage girl, ostracized by the adults around her.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

“We wanted to be a light for the children that are here and might feel ostracizing in their own family,” “Sister Annie Philaxis,” a member of the drag group the Hillbilly Harlots, told 5News.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 18, 2023

Instead of ostracizing Black, some of the students tried to change his mind.

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2023

What democracies need, he added, are investments in improvements — the best ideas, no matter where they come from — and a strong commitment to ostracizing those who violate rules and norms.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

Sawant said she was not worried about ostracizing her colleagues on the council or the administration of Mayor-elect Bruce Harrell because she is not in politics to “make friends.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

With the conviction that she is past redemption, doors closed, no one loving her, people, yes, her own sex, ostracizing her—she becomes hopeless, desperate, reckless.

From Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade by Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Bell