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blacklisted

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past tense of blacklist

as in excluded

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Recent Examples of blacklisted Over the next decade, hundreds more stars and other key players in the entertainment industry were fired, purged and blacklisted in what became known as the blacklist era. — Kathy M. Newman, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025

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Open models will be excluded from the voluntary pre-release review, at least for now.

— Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Research found that more than 70% of workers report being socially excluded at work in six months, while 48% report harassment or bullying, and those are big numbers.

— Jason Walker PsyD, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of excluded

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Some are more comfortable than others with staging the show, like high schoolers Bones and Megan, best friends who have grounded heads on their shoulders about how they’ve been ostracized by their broader communities.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 30 July 2026
Three years later, censured by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party, and ignored by the press, McCarthy drank himself to death, a broken man at the age of 48.

— Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026

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The account has been deactivated and was subsequently banned by the social media platform, which noted that the content of his livestream related to self-harm violated TikTok’s community guidelines.

— Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026
Instead, the council majority voted to ban the use of firearms in the city, rectifying an apparent oversight in 2011 that removed the prohibition on shooting firearms from a list of weapons that were banned.

— Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026

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Kaepernick subsequently opted out of his contract with the 49ers and later in the year had received no contract offers; many of Kaepernick’s supporters suspected he was being blackballed because of his peaceful protests.

— Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Kaepernick was blackballed from the NFL for his decision to kneel on the sideline during the playing of the national anthem in protest of police brutality and racial injustice.

— Michael Cunningham, AJC.com, 4 June 2026

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The Twins then quickly crossed off another need by being aggressive on Friday and adding Kremer, which eliminated a potential weakness.

— Dan Hayes, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
The racial and ethnic minority category will be eliminated from the program as a result of the judge’s ruling, but the other categories remain.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of eliminated

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Michael Goldade, one of the new bishops the Vatican excommunicated, grew up there.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2026
In the late 1980s, its ‌founder ⁠Marcel Lefebvre consecrated four bishops without the approval of Pope John Paul II, leading those involved to be excommunicated.

— Reuters, NBC news, 5 July 2026

Definition of excommunicated

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To be clear, compulsory voting is the opposite of the poll taxes, which are prohibited by the 24th Amendment and that were once used to disenfranchise.

— Susan Ostermann, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026
Most state and local regulations use terms such as exotic, noxious, prohibited and restricted instead of invasive.

— Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026

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