blacklist

Example Sentences

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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

Two years later, Mr. Novick lost his new job as a U.S. marshal after being put on a blacklist on the say-so of federal prosecutors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

He always brings her home, but if some of the underwriters’d see him out here they’d soon blacklist him till he mended his ways.

From The Seiners by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)