How to Use blacklist in a Sentence
- The rental company has created a blacklist of bad drivers.
- He's on the FBI's blacklist.
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And a lot of that had to do with the blacklist politics of the time.
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Kate Tuttle,
Peoplemag,
10 Mar. 2023
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He was also placed on the US blacklist at the end of last year.
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Jonathan Browning,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2023
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But fear of the blacklist convinced Presser not to start a case.
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Lisa Song,
ProPublica,
18 Aug. 2022
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The suit alleges Mace was never added to the store’s blacklist.
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Washington Post,
30 Apr. 2021
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In the Heat of the Night was my first movie coming back from the blacklist.
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Julian Sancton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
8 Jan. 2022
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The blacklist has yet to be defined by the president’s lawyers.
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Ken Sweet,
Fortune,
22 Feb. 2026
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The blacklist has yet to be defined by the president’s lawyers.
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Ken Sweet,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
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Several Nicaraguan judges will also be named on the new blacklist.
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Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer,
Los Angeles Times,
20 July 2022
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The notion of a master blacklist appears to be gaining steam.
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Suzanne Rowan Kelleher,
Forbes,
1 Nov. 2021
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Link wound up on the government’s blacklist — he is banned from China.
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Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
13 July 2023
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Collect a blacklist of email senders that should be ignored when collecting email from the victim.
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Dan Goodin,
Ars Technica,
3 Aug. 2022
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One reason is that there are parallels between the blacklist era and today.
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Kathy M. Newman,
The Conversation,
8 Oct. 2025
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This letter transformed the old blacklist into new blackmail.
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Armond White,
National Review,
23 Sep. 2022
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Who was on Johnny Carson's blacklist?
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FOXNews.com,
26 Dec. 2025
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The company is part of a growing US blacklist.
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Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
12 May 2026
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Her career briefly stalled when her name was placed on the Hollywood blacklist in the ’50s.
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Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 June 2026
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Landing on the blacklist will not change Xioami's day-to-day operations.
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Grady McGregor,
Fortune,
15 Jan. 2021
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Biden also added more companies to the blacklist, bringing the total to 59.
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Harold Maass,
The Week,
4 June 2021
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Anyone who had ever belonged to a union was placed on a blacklist that was distributed among lumber companies.
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Michael Waters,
The New Yorker,
4 Jan. 2024
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Agencies respond with a blacklist of sorts, composed of marketers that tend to put ad duties into play frequently.
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Avi Dan,
Forbes,
27 Sep. 2021
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Trump’s lawyers allege the bank placed him on an industry ‘blacklist’ that prevents future account openings.
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Ken Sweet,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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The studio system is crumbling and the blacklist is threatening their closest allies.
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Michael Granberry,
Dallas News,
13 July 2023
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Recent changes to shipping regulations have changed some sanctions laws from using a blacklist to using a whitelist.
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David A. Teich,
Forbes,
11 May 2021
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Sjoerdsma is also on a blacklist of Russia for being critical of the regime.
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Tripti Lahiri,
Quartz,
23 Mar. 2021
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Akhund, who is on a United Nations blacklist, led the opposition to handing him over.
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NBC News,
7 Sep. 2021
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The United Nations published an anti-apartheid blacklist and Norman made the cut.
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Scott Ostler,
San Francisco Chronicle,
23 Feb. 2022
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The government responded by putting Anthropic on a supply chain blacklist, set to take effect later in the year.
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Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
13 June 2026
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With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company.
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News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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Fail to meet our demands and you will be blacklisted.
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Michael Liedtke,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Feb. 2026
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But when a movie star got blacklisted, that had a worldwide effect.
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Thr Staff,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Feb. 2020
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This often led to the teachers being blacklisted and fired.
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Laura Gail Miller,
The Conversation,
30 Sep. 2025
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Bernstein was nearly blacklisted in the nineteen-fifties—twice.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
19 Dec. 2023
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Belarus and Iran have also been blacklisted from the event for their ties to Russia.
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Misty Severi,
Washington Examiner,
2 Sep. 2023
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If anybody in this industry wishes to blacklist me or being on the side of right and good, then whatever.
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Stephen Rodrick,
Variety,
19 July 2023
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But posting about the sorority rush process can get freshmen blacklisted from some of those same sororities.
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Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
18 Aug. 2025
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Those who did so would be blacklisted from other jobs with the DCCC.
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Li Zhou,
Vox,
30 July 2019
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She has been blacklisted as a performer in China for her political stance.
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Trudy Rubin,
The Mercury News,
23 Sep. 2019
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Honor has never been blacklisted.
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John Liu,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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People talk about being blacklisted.
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Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Feb. 2026
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But in blacklisting Chinese drones, Cape runs the risk of hampering its own business, at least in the short term.
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Joshua Brusteinbloomberg,
Los Angeles Times,
17 July 2019
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Google should have blacklisted medical and safety advice.
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Joe Toscano,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Such actions often prompted people to be pressured to recant their beliefs or face blacklisting.
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David Folkenflik,
NPR,
16 Oct. 2025
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Russia used to just block certain platforms and websites—a strategy referred to as blacklisting.
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Natasha Lindstaedt,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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They were blacklisted, harassed, silenced, and even imprisoned.
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Anastasia Tsioulcas,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
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At a time when country artists were largely apolitical, the group was blacklisted by country radio stations and even faced death threats.
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Jessica Wang,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Oct. 2025
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The sanctions include asset freezes, travel bans and a prohibition to make any funds available to those blacklisted.
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CBS News,
15 June 2026
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The only other countries that are blacklisted are North Korea and Iran.
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Susannah George,
Washington Post,
20 Feb. 2020
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To combat the issue, Venmo blacklisted tens of thousands of users whose accounts had been flagged as suspicious.
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Shannon Liao,
The Verge,
26 Nov. 2018
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These services would get a court order for an exchange or an issuer like Tether or Circle who could blacklist an address.
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Carlos Garcia,
Fortune,
9 Jan. 2026
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Among those who were blacklisted was Loeb, who played Jake Goldberg, Molly’s husband on the show.
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Sergio Carmona,
sun-sentinel.com,
27 Nov. 2019
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His break, however, was the result of a shift in focus toward movies — not because he was effectively blacklisted.
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Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2024
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The way to do that isn’t to blacklist everyone who ever worked for a big corporation or to limit recruitment to friends and former colleagues.
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Washington Post,
17 Nov. 2020
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Burrowes said in The Reckoning that he was blacklisted in the industry for the next 25 years.
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Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
9 Dec. 2025
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Ho is among those who have been blacklisted, banned from the mainland, had concerts canceled and lost sponsorship deals because of their pro-democracy activism.
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Alice Su,
latimes.com,
10 July 2019
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The man was blacklisted from purchasing tickets for Wimbledon.
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Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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The two sides failed to reach an agreement, and Hegseth blacklisted Anthropic and bashed the company on social media.
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Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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In one attempt to avoid snarling Russian exports, the EU watered down a plan to blacklist vessels that violate the cap.
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Anna Hirtenstein,
WSJ,
27 Nov. 2022
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Like Landis, most of these people were blacklisted and suffered a twisted penance, battling depression, substance abuse, or both.
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Marc Peruzzi,
Outside Online,
19 July 2019
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