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Which period of history is famous for the Hollywood blacklist?

blacklist

[blak-list] / ˈblΓ¦kˌlΙͺst /


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Sheinbaum vehemently denied any attempt to compile a blacklist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

It warned investors that the blacklist "may subject us to increased scrutiny and potential further government actions".

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

I remember thinking her diatribe about the injustice of Hester Prynne’s shunning would segue into the cruelties Charles faced with the goal of inspiring someone to defy the blacklist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Abusive air passengers could be put on a national blacklist and prevented from flying with any airline under a new government proposal.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

But, alone of the seemingly unadjustable disputes pending between the United States and Great Britain, it was on the blacklist issue that the latter had an unanswerable defense.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

Neither do potential blacklists or liability rules reportedly aimed at Chinese models whose weights anyone can download.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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

One website, Canary Mission, blacklists those they accuse of being antisemitic.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024

Of those, just under a third are now on U.S blacklists.

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 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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