blacklist

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In February, the Pentagon added Chinese technology heavyweights including Alibaba to a blacklist of Chinese military contractors, and immediately retracted it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

At the same time, frightened sailors who don't fulfil their contracts by abandoning ship will have difficulties finding future employment as shipping companies may blacklist them.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

The company is also dealing with the fallout of its dispute with the U.S. government, which decided to blacklist Anthropic on Friday and to designate the company a supply-chain risk from a national-security perspective.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

Additional accusations included sharing classified documents, putting artists critical of her policies on a "blacklist", and dismissing officials who opposed her.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

Then to protect himself, Cordell told lies about Ben and got all of Riverview’s publishers to blacklist him!”

From Signal in the Dark by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)