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Recent Examples of blacklist This practice creates confusion about item availability, potentially results in lost sales for the estate, and increases the likelihood of being blacklisted from future estate sale invitations. Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2024 Among the people blacklisted were some of those linked to Project 2025, some who resigned from Trump’s administration after the Jan. 6 riot, and others perceived as disloyal to Trump. Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 17 Oct. 2024 Robeson was one of the first performers to be blacklisted from television, and his banishment lasted longer than any other performer of the blacklist era — twenty-five years, ending only with his death. Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024 Seafarers subjected to these conditions are often afraid to speak up for fear of losing their contract or being blacklisted from the industry, many sources told USA TODAY. USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for blacklist 
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  • Total expenses excluding management fees increased to $438,982 from $238,942.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
  • The new district added Port Washington, more of Grafton and excluded chunks of the old district west of Menomonee Falls.
    Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2024
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  • During his time in Congress, Pocan has pushed back on efforts to ban or force a sale of the popular social media app Tik Tok and was quick to address last year's attack on Israel by Hamas, which drew him into a feud with a pro-Israel group.
    Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This research gives ammunition to groups who are pushing to ban public water fluoridation.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Nov. 2024
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  • A week after Nader and Savchenko were eliminated from the competition, a source told PEOPLE that the couple broke things off.
    Esther Kang, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Other provisions pin down how states designate electors, in order to eliminate the possibility of fakes crashing the Electoral College.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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  • His allies around Washington have drawn up a detailed agenda, one that Harris and her allies have successfully weaponized to the point that some Project 2025’s authors have already been blackballed from any access to Trump.
    Philip Elliott / Houston, TIME, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Since making the announcement in the summer of 2019, Jay was criticized for getting in bed with a league that allegedly blackballed San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for choosing to kneel during the national anthem in protest of police brutality.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2024
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  • For his part, Dimon has repeatedly denied having government ambitions — but has never fully ruled out the possibility of serving in office if the timing is right.
    Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The Rams ruled out defensive tackle Neville Gallimore (neck) for the second consecutive week.
    Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 9 Nov. 2024
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  • Nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas, Dharamshala is best known internationally as the seat of the Dalai Lama, who has been based there since being exiled from Tibet in 1959.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Baton follows a soccer player, relentlessly pursuing his dream of playing professionally, who threatens his relationship with his sister after he is kicked off the team and exiled back to Miami.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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  • Once Trump withdraws America’s aegis over these allies, what is to prevent old hostilities from resurfacing, from enmities between Germany and France or Germany and Poland to lingering resentments between the Japanese and Koreans?
    Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • In the current proposal for land possession there, private land prevents the Crow from visiting many of these sites without permission from the landowner.
    Ryleigh Nucilli, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
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  • While programs such as the Works Progress Administration provided a crucial source of employment, most Black workers remained largely shut out of the Social Security system and unprotected by wage and hour regulations.
    Ben Zdencanovic, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Forgotten about this Series, and just as damaging to the Dodgers as Owen’s blunder: Freddie Fitzsimmons was sailing along in Game 3, shutting out the Yankees, when the final out of the seventh — a line drive by Marius Russo — bounced off Fitzsimmons’ leg, breaking his kneecap.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024

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“Blacklist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blacklist. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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