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synonyms for boycott
- avoid
- cut off
- exclude
- refuse
- reject
- snub
- spurn
- bar
- blackball
- blacklist
- embargo
- ostracize
- outlaw
- prohibit
- proscribe
- strike
- brush off
- hold aloof from
- ice out
- pass by
- pass up
- shut out
- withhold patronage
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How to use boycott in a sentence
The company was the first high-profile advertisers to join the boycott — and now one of the first to announce its return.
As the Facebook boycott ends, brand advertisers are split on what happens next with their marketing budgets | Seb Joseph | August 3, 2020 | DigidayIt also appears Facebook won’t need to make many of the concessions boycott organizers wanted.
In some cases, publishers have been able to draw a direct connection between the Facebook video ad revenue decline and the advertiser boycott.
As advertisers boycott Facebook, publishers see video ad revenue fall in July | Tim Peterson | July 16, 2020 | Digiday
boycott or no boycott the biggest Facebook advertisers were always going to spend less on the platform in 2020.
Advertisers were cutting their Facebook ad spending well before the boycott began | Seb Joseph | July 10, 2020 | DigidayWhen he met with leaders of the boycott, he stuck to familiar talking points.
Unless Cuba sends them back, you might consider following the now lifted embargo with your own personal boycott.
The Black Friday demonstrations were part of a nation wide boycott and mass action to bring awareness to Ferguson.
This Week's Riots Are Part of America's Long History of Racial Rage | Sharon Adarlo | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThose rumors, in turn, sparked a boycott of enterprises affiliated with the family.
The conservative Christian group mailed out nearly one million cards to supporters calling on them to boycott Disney products.
When the Religious Right Attacked ‘The Little Mermaid’ | Asawin Suebsaeng | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 1996 filing (which you can check out here) was, naturally, as silly and frivolous as the boycott push that came before it.
When the Religious Right Attacked ‘The Little Mermaid’ | Asawin Suebsaeng | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere is hot talk of a boycott to be extended to everything sold or handled by the Hatch syndicate.
The Wreckers | Francis LyndeAnother common word taken at first from politics, but now used in a general sense, is boycott.
Stories That Words Tell Us | Elizabeth O'NeillThat was a secondary boycott, which Mr. Cleveland said ought to be suppressed.
Ethics in Service | William Howard TaftAs soon as opposition developed the Ku Klux “freedom of the press” manifested itself in a desire to boycott the newspaper.
The Modern Ku Klux Klan | Henry Peck FryIt is generally used in English as a verb of which the nearest equivalent is another curious verb—to boycott.
The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney Hartland
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