blacklisting

verb

present participle of blacklist
as in excluding

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blacklisting
  1. excluding
  2. eliminating
  3. banning
  4. blackballing
  5. preventing
  6. prohibiting
  7. debarring
  8. ostracizing
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  • This includes accommodation and meals, all soft and alcoholic drinks (excluding French champagne) including cellar collection wines, cocktails and single-malt whiskeys, laundry service, lodge activities, massage and spa treatments.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 July 2026
  • Heatwaves and rising temperatures in some of Lindt's core European markets could impact chocolate demand, with European sales excluding Eastern Europe, declining in the four weeks ending June 14, the analysts said.
    — Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 26 July 2026
Definition of excluding
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  • Rinehart, a veteran of political and issue-advocacy campaigns, was a former swimmer at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, which proposed eliminating the sport in 2013 amid a campus budget shortfall.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 23 July 2026
  • Banks previously responded to the 2010 measure on debit card swipe fees by eliminating rewards for those cards, and opponents are afraid credit cards will follow.
    — Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of eliminating
Verb
  • French lawmakers are racing against the clock to reach a compromise that would allow a bill banning social media for children under 15 to possibly enter into force at the start of the new school year in September.
    — Samuel Petrequin, Fortune, 20 July 2026
  • What’s to stop Morocco, co-host of the 2030 tournament, from banning officials and players from Algeria over the two countries’ territorial dispute in the Western Sahara?
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of banning
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  • Social media rumors swirled that the league was blackballing her because of her activism.
    — Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • Last week, Google made sweepstakes ineligible for advertising certification, effectively blackballing them.
    — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 10 Nov. 2025
Definition of blackballing
Verb
  • Kennedy has said that the campaign is aimed at preventing improper payments instead of recovering them after the fact, with the Administration increasingly using payment deferrals and pre-payment reviews of Medicaid claims.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 22 July 2026
  • The defense has also complained that Washington interfered with Maduro’s representation by initially preventing the Venezuelan government from paying his legal bills.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 22 July 2026
Definition of preventing
Verb
  • The ruling granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the firms from completing the merger and from consolidating their operations.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 20 July 2026
  • Key Background Federal prosecutors have increasingly used statutes prohibiting the sending of threats against the president to pursue posts made on social media.
    — Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of prohibiting
Verb
  • If Chiu succeeds in debarring Collective Impact, the nonprofit would have to end its summer and after-school programs and close the doors of its three-decade-old Ella Hill Hutch Community Center, its attorneys Lauren Kramer Sujeeth and Si Eun Amber Lee wrote.
    — Michael Barba, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2025
Definition of debarring
Verb
  • The Vanity Fair article was published shortly after, further ostracizing Adams from her former friends and causing the remaining Eternal Values members to become even more insular.
    — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 1 June 2026
  • While going on a spiel about the pitfalls of ostracizing family members for voting MAGA, the TV personality pivoted to his personal experience.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2025
Definition of ostracizing
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