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As part of industrial action short of strike during pay disputes in recent years, teachers had boycotted inspections.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

He noted that he had boycotted the show when DMX released two No. 1 albums but was not nominated.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024

The producers of both dropped Depp from their franchises after Heard’s allegations became public, and in a 2021 profile published in U.K.-based Times he lamented that Hollywood had boycotted him.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2023

About a week after the cover appeared, the United Farm Workers signed contracts with the grape growers they had boycotted for years.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023

Black people had boycotted the city bus system there for an entire year, and the Supreme Court had ruled that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional, forcing the city to change its laws.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson