blacklist

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Recent Examples of blacklist The game was aired on CBS and resulted in massive fallout for the network and Jackson, who was blacklisted as a result. Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025 The action was reversed by the Biden administration over concerns that blacklisting the militant group would prevent aid from getting into Yemen. Brett Samuels, The Hill, 22 Jan. 2025 Her mother was actress Hope Bryce Preminger and her uncle was film producer Ingo Preminger, the literary agent who represented clients such as Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner, who were both blacklisted throughout the McCarthy period. Andrés Buenahora, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024 The scandal saw Hammer completely blacklisted from the industry. Jack Dunn, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blacklist
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Verb
  • The University of Wisconsin-Madison is among roughly 50 universities being investigated by the Department of Education over accusations of racial discrimination by allegedly excluding certain races from specific programs.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The Commonwealth excludes municipalities in its parental leave legislation.
    Michael Maguire, Boston Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • His team has scrubbed the existence of trans people from government websites, threatened access to gender-affirming care, banned transgender people from joining the military, and more.
    Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
  • During the forum, the candidates were asked how to balance the need for federal funding with an executive order from President Donald Trump banning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Almost 40 years after the vaccine — and its widespread and widely required use — measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.
    Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.
    Brian Castrucci, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The resolution of the cases culminates a lengthy personal and legal odyssey for the first student to make the accusations, Alex Harrison, who was subsequently blackballed by the insular sporting community there.
    David W. Chen, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Incognito resurrected his career after his NFL imposed suspension (eight games in 2013), and blackballing (all of 2014).
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 17 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Trump did not rule out the possibility of economic hardship, arguing that the economy and the U.S. population will have to adjust to the changes being made.
    Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 9 Mar. 2025
  • But manager Alex Cora didn’t rule out another possibility to fill the outfield hole presented by Abreu’s likely absence: Kristian Campbell.
    Jen McCaffrey, The Athletic, 8 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The unlikely foursome's journey leads them into the Exclusion Zone, where robots have been exiled after Mr. Peanut (Woody Harrelson) signed a peace treaty with President Clinton.
    Skyler Trepel, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Women filmmakers working on British shores like Muriel Box, Wendy Toye, Margaret Tait, and Jill Craigie as well as American filmmakers exiled to the UK by the anti-Communist blacklist like Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, and Edward Dmytryk will also feature.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Advocates and government agencies say doubling down on those strategies could help prevent more pedestrian deaths in the future.
    Adam Tamburin, Axios, 13 Mar. 2025
  • However, during intake, BOP staff confiscate and discard all medications, citing efforts to prevent the introduction of illicit drugs.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Intersex advocates say that they have been shut out of the conversations about gender and health, even as a recent executive order has far-reaching consequences for intersex kids. March 10, 2025 This post originally appeared on The 19th.
    Barbara Rodriguez and Kate Sosin, Them, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Finally, the team was 0-5-1 in its previous six games and had been shut out 4-0 in back-to-back games prior to the trade, so things were headed in the wrong direction.
    Jeremy Rutherford, The Athletic, 5 Mar. 2025

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