black list
Example Sentences
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Saturated fat has been taken off the black list.
From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026
Myanmar, Iran and North Korea are the only countries on the group's "black list".
From Reuters • Jun. 24, 2023
North Korea and Iran remain the only two countries on the FATF’s high-risk black list.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2021
House managers maintain a black list of those who don’t wear the proper clothes, follow directives, show enough initiative, arrive on time or at all.
From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2018
Jason Philip had become a dilatory debtor; the publishers no longer gave him books on approval; he was placed on the black list.
From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
