boycott
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In New York, for example, she engaged high-profile feminists in the grape boycott, highlighting the horrendous working conditions of mothers and pregnant women during harvests.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 28, 2026
She formed farmworker ranch committees and moved to the East Coast for months to promote the union’s national grape boycott.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 28, 2026
He faces a possible death penalty if convicted of treason for allegedly inciting the public to boycott elections last year.
From Barron's β Oct. 22, 2026
In one food group I follow, posts about AI restaurant marketing increasingly read like miniature boycott pledges.
From Salon β Oct. 3, 2026
It was the 159th day of the Montgomery bus boycott, with no end in sight.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
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"Group boycotts among commercial competitors can violate the Sherman Act," a DoJ spokesperson said, referring to the federal law that bars companies from engaging in monopolistic business practices.
From BBC β Oct. 11, 2026
Chatfield left the UFW in 1973, a year after helping defeat a proposition that would’ve made specific labor strikes and boycotts unlawful.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 18, 2026
PEN America said its longstanding policy on cultural and academic boycotts hasn’t changed, opposing boycotts institutionally while defending the rights of individuals to engage in them.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 10, 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 β 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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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
Bakley’s family boycotted it as a staged PR event.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 30, 2026
Perhaps he had boycotted cologne because the makers of cologne did not treat their employees well.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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In 1972, leaders of the United Farm Workers union descended on Arizona to battle legislation prohibiting agricultural workers in the state from striking or boycotting during harvest season.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 28, 2026
Meanwhile, university students in several other Albanian towns were boycotting classes.
From Barron's β Oct. 15, 2026
Local elections are under way, which protesters are boycotting.
From BBC β Aug. 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
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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