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Which period of history is famous for the Hollywood blacklist?

blacklist

[blak-list] / ˈblækˌlɪst /


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Sheinbaum vehemently denied any attempt to compile a blacklist.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

On Thursday, his name appeared on Russia's online register of "terrorists and extremists" -- a blacklist maintained by Russia's Rosfinmonitoring financial watchdog.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Commerce’s undersecretary for security, Alan Estevez, started the bureaucratic process for the blacklist, but got a call redirecting the path.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

While the blacklist does not freeze finances immediately, it triggers a brutal operational penalty on 30 June.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

He raged about the office, and finally wrote the name of Philemon R. Ward in large letters on the office blacklist hanging above his desk.

From A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White

Both countries have tightened export controls, put companies on blacklists and restricted the exchange of professionals.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

In the 1950s, the rise of McCarthyism saw it used to accuse suspected communists of plotting against America, resulting in the Hollywood blacklists.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2025

Last year, after Ozturk authored an op-ed critical of Israel, her profile appeared on Canary Mission, a website that blacklists people and groups it accuses of antisemitism.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 28, 2025

The buyer, a businessperson named Josef Liokumovich, passed the company’s background checks and was not on any financial blacklists.

From Seattle Times Dec. 17, 2023

The blacklists, naming consumers who'd withheld dated gifts from the Potlatch Pyres of earlier years, were brought up to date and distributed to the Reserve BSG Officers in each township of Winfree's District.

From The Great Potlatch Riots by Allen Kim Lang




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