Example Sentences
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Second, unlike Kennan’s memo, Merry’s was at odds with U.S. policy and was ignored, then buried, and its author was blackballed, by the policymakers at the time.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2024
Afterward he was blackballed in the industry, and invested most of his settlement in a producing a play he wrote that flopped.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023
It has also been reported that the energy security department had already blackballed Greenpeace months ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023
The firing blackballed him from future work with the Missile Defense Agency, the lawsuit alleges.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
If he’s not careful, he’ll be blackballed by his state medical association and kept out of the hospitals.”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
