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Examples of ostracize
ostracize
The answer is to provide support for these students, not ostracize them further.
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Some Republicans ostracize Cook, the Marine who received a Bronze Star for valor.
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The local children ostracize her because her father was a thief and a wife-beater.
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She said they will blame her for the board's decision and ostracize her as a result.
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Negativity towards their condition can ostracize both obese children and their families.
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Should any city ostracize another because of a controversial ordinance?
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Ryan allowed the team to briefly excommunicate Solo, then to ostracize her when she returned.
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Both the Bush administration and the Israeli government have long sought to ostracize Hamas.
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Inch by inch, the Democratic Party continues to ostracize Christians.
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- Banish: expel from a community or group
- Avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me"
- Ostracism (Greek: u1F40u03C3u03C4u03C1u03B1u03BAu03B9u03C3u03BCu03CCu03C2, ostrakismos) was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years. While some instances clearly expressed popular anger at the citizen, ostracism was often used preemptively. It was used as a way of neutralizing someone thought to be a threat to the state or potential tyrant...
- To exclude (a person) from society or from a community, by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to talk to or associate with; to shun
- (ostracized) blackballed; banished by ostracism
- (v) to exclude from a group by common consent
