as in to criticize
to not allow (someone) to be included in a group; to exclude (someone) from a group
She was ostracized by the scientific community for many years because of her radical political beliefs. The other girls ostracized her because of the way she dressed.
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Blas can see through the veil because those dismissive, racist remnants still exist: the shaming, the way he’s ostracized, the way he’s dismissed and ignored.
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Samantha Dunn, Orange County Register, 10 Sep. 2024
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Still ostracized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Samantha Dunn, Orange County Register, 10 Sep. 2024
Eventually, his experiments with robotics lead him to be ostracized by the resistance movement.
—Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2024
Describe your past physical self and how you were ostracized because of it.
—Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
Still ostracized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Ostracize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ostracize. Accessed 10 Dec. 2024.
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