ostracize

When the Athenians voted to ostracize him, he became a Persian governor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

“The Traitors” is a social game, so when Funches’ early big swing at another contestant misses terribly, the rest of the players instantly ostracize him.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026

“It is never my intent to ostracize or diminish.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

Rather than ostracize the neighborhood’s teenagers, he wants to find ways to engage them and show them the value of being part of a culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

“Look, I wasn’t trying to ostracize anybody. It’s just that she — he lied about who he was.”

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

Will's signature swagger, which was once-revered in his old town, now ostracizes him from his peers and loved ones.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2022

The film portrays how Japanese society, often working like a claustrophobic village, ostracizes and punishes what it sees as erring individuals.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

Mesa County’s “siloed, non-collaborative behavior ostracizes us from our Western Slope neighbors,” she added.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2019

A man searches for answers a decade after his close-knit high school clique inexplicably ostracizes him.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2014

While public sentiment ostracizes and is more severe and unrelenting with the woman, the law always inflicts its penalty upon the man.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall

Despite being ostracized by mainstream parties and kept out of coalition cooperation, it has survived and thrived as a disruptive force.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

And now, all of these years later, you feel ostracized from your remaining family and, more than that, you were left with a few mementoes of those formative years and no inheritance.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

Individuals all over the country were fired from their jobs, shunned, ostracized and run out of town for insufficient reverence for Kirk on social media.

From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2026

“Crawfie was ostracized as a result, and ‘doing a Crawfie’ became the shorthand term for any Palace employee who betrayed intimate family details for financial gain.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

It was a different psychological environment, where my normal expectations were inverted, where leadership was honored and class clowns were ostracized.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

Some believe the erasure of Black LGBTQ+ leaders stems from respectability politics, a strategy in some marginalized communities of ostracizing or punishing members who don’t assimilate into the dominant culture.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

The request, Del Real-Calleros told me, “brought back memories — terrible memories” of suffering the same ostracizing both in the Lynwood schools and within his Mexican immigrant community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

The Vatican has long argued that in some countries, reporting claims to law enforcement could result in the ostracizing of victims and potentially a death sentence for the accused.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

Instead of ostracizing Black, some of the students tried to change his mind.

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2023

Some of Hester’s classmates were for ostracizing her entirely—“sending her to Coventry.”

From The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors by Gertrude W. Morrison