blacklist

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Recent Examples of blacklist Tennis players can request certain spectators to be blacklisted from ticket sales or being able to receive credentials. Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025 Airline No-fly Lists In addition to the official federal No Fly List, airlines are allowed to blacklist passengers from future flights. Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2025 But posting about the sorority rush process can get freshmen blacklisted from some of those same sororities. Phil Wahba, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2025 Kaplan lived in the Los Angeles area until 1954, when his dad moved the family to New York to work on Broadway after getting blacklisted in Hollywood following an appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blacklist
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Verb
  • Before long, judges started interpreting AB 2777 to completely exclude individual defendants.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
  • While critical local and Indigenous knowledge is recognized in the report, it is largely excluded from assessments, both because weaving it with conventional scientific analysis is difficult or because communities may choose to protect certain knowledge.
    Jessica Beaudette, The Conversation, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meehan said the effort to ban books started at the local level, with parents addressing school boards with their concerns over the books in school libraries, which then led to statewide efforts and legislation.
    BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 12 Oct. 2025
  • She’s also supported revising Japan’s pacifist constitution, particularly Article 9, which renounces war and bans military forces.
    Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Significantly enhancing overall efficiency This integrated approach could lead to significant gains in overall system efficiency by eliminating the need for a separate, heavy cooling apparatus.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The current administration’s justification for eliminating the CSB is that its capabilities are duplicated by agencies such as the EPA and OSHA.
    Philip Steenstra, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The reductive street code has blackballed Gunna in the rap game, with Offset and Roddy Ricch being the sole rapper collaborators on his two post-release albums.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Having exposed the existence of Task Force X at the end of the first season, Leota Adebayo has been blackballed by her mother, Amanda Waller, and thrown out again by her wife Keeya.
    Scott Meslow, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Commanders could be without three of their top playmakers tonight, as starting WRs Terry McLaurin and Noah Brown have been ruled out, and Deebo Samuel -- who is averaging nearly 8 targets per game -- is questionable.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Richardson, the Colts’ back-up signal-caller, sustained the eye injury in the locker-room and was quickly ruled out of the game.
    Ben Morse, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In Sacramento and San Diego, Democrats reign supreme, holding every office and legislative supermajorities so entrenched that opposing views have been exiled.
    John H Bolthouse, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Anyone pushing back against HUAC was a traitor, a red, and should be exiled.
    Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The company also lobbied Congress over legislation that would prevent chemical assessments conducted by the agency’s Integrated Risk Information System program from being used in regulation.
    Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary with the Department of Homeland Security, claimed that the demonstrators were preventing an ICE vehicle from leaving the federal facility and hampering operations.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Last season, the team managed 27 total first-quarter points across the entire 17-game campaign, shut out in the first quarter 12 times.
    Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Crusaders have shut out their last two opponents, beating Helix 13-0 and Chula Vista 27-0.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025

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