blacklist

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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

Additional accusations included sharing classified documents, putting artists critical of her policies on a "blacklist", and dismissing officials who opposed her.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

Two years later, Mr. Novick lost his new job as a U.S. marshal after being put on a blacklist on the say-so of federal prosecutors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

The company said at the time it had "strengthened its keyword blacklist to further prevent attempted circumvention of product listing restrictions by sellers".

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

Then there'd come a grand mix-up, a war or something, and a lot of princes had either lost their jobs or got on the blacklist.

From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)