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His speech and debate friends had ostracized him.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2021

In 1936, the very state bishop who had ostracized her and other blacks would laud the deaconess for her tireless service.

From Washington Times • Apr. 8, 2018

Shivram Chavan’s sons did not know the whole story but feared the worst and had ostracized their father; he was ready to confess.

From Washington Post • May 9, 2016

She was fed up with her husband's ritualistic drum-beating and flute-playing; the neighbors had ostracized her.

From Time Magazine Archive

He divined that his increasing loneliness, and the sure slow decline of his health, and the heartless intolerance of the same class that had ostracized her were added burdens to Mel Iden's faithful heart.

From The Day of the Beast by Grey, Zane