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boycott

[boi-kot] / ˈbɔɪ kɒt /


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The consul general had been responding to a Times editorial supporting a boycott of products made with cotton produced in the Xinjiang region of China.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

The Eurovision Song Contest is now facing its biggest boycott in its 70-year history.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

The guy who accused her of having “blood coming out of her wherever,” nicknamed her “Crazy Megyn,” and encouraged his supporters to boycott her show?

From Slate • May 6, 2026

UQP's decision to scrap her book has sparked a boycott of the publisher by several prominent Australian writers.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Evers had attracted national attention back in the early 1960s when he led a store boycott in Jackson, Mississippi, and when he helped black student James Meredith enter the all-white University of Mississippi in 1962.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry




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