guilt by association
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There are good reasons of privacy and unfair guilt by association not to dump hundreds of thousands of pages of raw FBI investigatory files into the public arena.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
Morris, who is Black, called claims of racism preposterous and said it was a campaign of guilt by association.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024
“His critics continue to engage in guilt by association for comments that were not his,” De León’s attorney said in a lawsuit targeting two people whom De León suspected of making the recording.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
This allowed the researchers to group genes into common clusters that revealed the role of each gene through "guilt by association."
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
Oh, that's pretty remote guilt by association, Colin.
From Sentiment, Inc. by Poul William Anderson
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