ostracize

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Recent Examples of ostracize Judy was sort of a nonentity in these films until Annabelle Comes Home, where she was played by Mckenna Grace and given the character development of being ostracized by her classmates over her possible-grifter parents. Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025 Part of the presentation focused on helping people overcome their fear of being ostracized for having plants seen as too wild. Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025 The story followed a Russian family ostracized from society in 1930s Soviet Russia. Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025 By the end of the Friday morning hearing, Torres had heard the victim’s family talk about how they were ostracized by relatives angry about Doe finally coming forward — as well as supporters including Torres’ sister pleading for mercy from the judge. Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ostracize
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  • Some council members have criticized the proposal, citing a lack of communication and calling the move premature.
    Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • So far, the league’s response has been not to fix the issue but, instead, to levy fines against players and coaches who criticize refs.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The age of the Ayatollahs After the fall of the Shah in January 1979, the nascent Islamic Republic denounced his aggressive modernization drive inspired by the West.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In a previous statement to Fox News Digital, UNC denounced political violence and vowed to investigate Dixon’s involvement in the organization.
    Julia Bonavita , Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
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  • In the hands of editor Richard Mettler, some of those fragments serve montages that interlace how the tribes prepare to defend themselves with the way Jalabzeen readies himself to attack.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Having attacked the edge of the six-yard box, Rodon has to back-pedal and meet the ball, again, wide of the goal.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025

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