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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
boycott .
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Examples
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In 2003, residents of the city of Kano and the state of the same name boycotted a polio vaccine effort on charges that it was a Western plot to make Africans infertile.
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Some representatives of African countries refused to walk into ( "boycotted") the conference.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Copenhagen: The Mouse that Roared at the Conference 2009
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Which is why his speech to Congress this week was "boycotted" by-among others -- Senator Charles Schumer of New York.
James Heffernan: Now is the Time for Camus -- as an Antidote to Despair 2008
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You'll recall that this is the same group that "boycotted" Ford, then lost, after we exposed the organization as gay-hating, having a terrible record of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim writings, AND the fact that the AFA actually promotes the "Nazi Germany era" science of known hate groups on their Web site.
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You'll recall that this is the same group that "boycotted" Ford, then lost, after we exposed the organization as gay-hating, having a terrible record of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim writings, AND the fact that the AFA actually promotes the "Nazi Germany era" science of known hate groups on their Web site.
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I have simply 'boycotted' BBC until it gets it head out of its ass and starts covering the news courageously and independently.
BBC: Imperial Tool 2008
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You'll recall that this is the same group that "boycotted" Ford, then lost, after we exposed the organization as gay-hating, having a terrible record of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim writings, AND the fact that the AFA actually promotes the "Nazi Germany era" science of known hate groups on their Web site.
02/28/2006 2006
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On the same night a farmer's house was sacked because he had bought some 'boycotted' hay.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Hussey, S M 1904
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He would be rigorously "boycotted," and might, in the event of any disturbance, be made into a target.
Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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He replied, there was some talk of their being "boycotted" in their turn by the butchers and bakers.
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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