undesirable
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There was political consensus that a return to checkpoints on the border was undesirable.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026
"All affected individuals have been declared undesirable persons and are consequently prohibited from re-entering South Africa for a period of five years," the South African government said in a statement Thursday.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
They contended that through mental exercises, people could alter the shapes of their own brains, cultivating desirable qualities and suppressing undesirable ones.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
If those numbers are borne out in the real world, most people on GLP-1s may have some kind of undesirable GI effect from them.
From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026
But he was formally advised that he would not be permitted to speak and, moreover, that he could consider himself officially barred forever from France as “an undesirable person.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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