boycott
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In one food group I follow, posts about AI restaurant marketing increasingly read like miniature boycott pledges.
From Salon β Oct. 3, 2026
We boycott restaurants that automatically add a 20% gratuity and presumptuously suggest we tip still more.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 2, 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 β Sep. 20, 2026
Kit Harington has faced backlash since joining HBO’s “Harry Potter” series amid ongoing calls to boycott author J.K.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 17, 2026
At that first Congress, Washington joined the call for a boycott of British goods.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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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 β Sep. 8, 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 β 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,” the Capital Alpha analysts wrote.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 8, 2026
Its February letter cites reports that other boycotts have wiped billions of dollars from Target’s market value.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 19, 2026
They spoke in veiled attacks about his mediation of talks surrounding the black boycotts of Korean businesses across the city.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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Critics say the dialogue -- which excluded armed groups and was boycotted by key opposition parties -- did little to address these challenges.
From Barron's β Aug. 31, 2026
Ordinary Canadians have even boycotted U.S. products and avoided taking vacations here in solidarity.
From Slate β 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 β Aug. 21, 2026
It was the culmination of a showdown in the Clacton constituency, which was boycotted by the other major British parties.
From BBC β Aug. 14, 2026
The lion’s share of students boycotted the election, but twenty-five stu-dents, about one-sixth of the student body, showed up and elected six representatives, one of whom was myself.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Sinner stopped short of committing himself to boycotting one of the Slams.
From BBC β May 7, 2026
Australian Open champion Rybakina added: "I honestly don't know. If the majority say we are boycotting, then of course I'm up for it. It's not an issue."
From BBC β May 5, 2026
In Dallas, Carrie Hanna was hurt to discover that friends she thought were boycotting the camp are, in fact, sending their daughters this summer.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 18, 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 β Mar. 19, 2026
On a morning in December 1955, word reached Durham that blacks in Montgomery, Alabama, were boycotting the city’s segregated bus system.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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