blacklist

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Recent Examples of blacklist Her impactful career in the aftermath of that strike, however, was further derailed in the U.S. when she was blacklisted during the ‘50s Red Scare by the House Un-American Committee. Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2025 Many of these services enjoy implicit trust, and therefore their email notifications are rarely blacklisted, inspected or filtered by email security systems. Perry Carpenter, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025 Foreman ended up blacklisted and Cecil B. DeMille’s popular, if little loved, The Greatest Show on Earth took the top prize. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025 The company, blacklisted by the U.S. for national security reasons, did not feature among Nvidia’s competitors for at least three prior years. Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blacklist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blacklist
Verb
  • While the sector has been excluded from the recent tariffs, levies could come in the future.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
  • School leaders believed other records that might have fulfilled the requests contained too much private information and were excluded from public record under student privacy laws.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths annually in the U.S. Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California, banned the sale of most tobacco products beginning in 2021.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Certain artificial dyes used in the U.S. are banned or subject to warning labels in other countries.
    Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Vietnam offer to drop tariffs not enough On Monday morning, Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro said on CNBC even Vietnam's offer to eliminate tariffs on U.S. imports would not be enough for the administration to lift its new levies announced last week.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The Sharks, officially eliminated from playoff contention last month, only have five games remaining after Monday’s game against the Calgary Flames at SAP Center.
    Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Since that time, the free agent has been trying to get back on the field as a player, though it’s been widely said that he’s been blackballed.
    James Sanders, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • 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
Verb
  • Lucky for our planet, further data eventually ruled out an impact.
    Amanda Kooser, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Laboratory tests may be ordered to rule out other conditions or to corroborate the atopic dermatitis diagnosis by finding other allergic conditions.
    Susan Bard, Verywell Health, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The powerful producer Scott Rudin was exiled from entertainment after accusations of bullying.
    Matthew Cullen, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Soon, though, we were all exiled—I was arrested, just picked up off the street and thrown in jail.
    Corey Seymour, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • It was credited with helping prevent another riot in 1993, as racial tensions re-emerged following the second trial of police who beat Rodney King in California.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2025
  • While measles is highly contagious, a vaccine against the disease was developed in the 1960s and is 97% effective at preventing an infection.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Addy Walls had a complete game with 14 strikeouts as Hopkinton shut out Holliston, 11-0, in a Tri-Valley League game.
    Kristina Banahan, Boston Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
  • She was also shut out of getting any nominations from the CMA Awards last fall.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025

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