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Which period of history is famous for the Hollywood blacklist?

blacklist

[blak-list] / ˈblækˌlɪst /


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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested in July that the U.S. might punish Chinese AI companies by putting them on a U.S. blacklist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Sheinbaum vehemently denied any attempt to compile a blacklist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Brussels said it was imposing sanctions on nine people and four entities, while London said it was adding 24 names to its blacklist.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

He kept also an office blacklist, on which were written the names of the men in town that were never to be printed in the Statesman.

From In Our Town by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger

But for real change to happen, Congress and dozens of states must act to end these unfair blacklists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

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

Even though Flint blacklists me all over the country, as he probably will, I can duck into some job or other, somewhere.

From The Air Trust by George Allan England


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