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In Dallas, Carrie Hanna was hurt to discover that friends she thought were boycotting the camp are, in fact, sending their daughters this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Yet just a season ago the Galaxy’s main supporters’ groups were boycotting home games, angry over the team’s lack of direction and its dysfunctional front office.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2024

But 29-year-old model Jeffrey Kissubi told the BBC that MFW was just "one of the fashion bodies within the industry" that he and his colleagues were boycotting.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2023

Lawyers for them and for some of the others detained said they were boycotting the hearings because conditions for a fair trial had not been met.

From Reuters • Feb. 25, 2023

On a morning in December 1955, word reached Durham that blacks in Montgomery, Alabama, were boycotting the city’s segregated bus system.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson