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blacklisted

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past tense of blacklist

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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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Yet only a few people have actually seen it, with smaller and open-source AI companies generally getting excluded from the administration’s conversations.

— Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
The community received disproportionate federal grants to rebuild, as many were excluded from city and state grant programs due to Chinatown being located outside of the scope to receive that funding, the report said.

— Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of excluded

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After opening up about his gender identity and sexuality to another youth at a group home in rural Oregon, Rin quickly regretted it, feeling ostracized from the other youth by his caregivers and misunderstood.

— Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Interracial families were ostracized, and mixed-race children were excluded from the Baptist mission schools.

— H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 4 Sep. 2026

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Earlier this year, two band members were banned from Singapore for displaying the Palestinian flag onstage during a concert.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026
Under the new rules, K-12 schools are also explicitly banned from deploying AI applications designed to meet students’ social or emotional needs, which includes technology that is meant to simulate friendship with the user.

— Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of banned

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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

Definition of blackballed

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However, Heidi was eliminated during week 8 of the competition, while Charli and Mark won the series.

— Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
Viewer votes will be combined with judges’ scores to determine the pairs that will be eliminated and those that will continue on to next week’s show.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 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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Six Flags said food and other loose items are prohibited on rides because these items can create safety hazards.

— Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
The University of Chicago’s social-science faculty have prohibited most technology and banned the use of AI tools from their core classes.

— Sian Leah Beilock, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026

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