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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ostracize .
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Examples
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Henry is furious with Isabella, yet Harriet is the one who leads the family in ostracizing her.
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It's not much of a leap thereafter--especially given how broadly you're apparently defining "ostracizing"--to chide particular, and particularly egregious, examples of theocratic overreach elsewhere.
"Mrs Gibbons technically faces three charges - insulting Islam, inciting religious hatred and contempt for religious beliefs..." Ann Althouse 2007
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It's moving a bit too closely into, say, X-Men territory in terms of the idea of ostracizing people based on their status, but I'm no comic book fan and I think it has some dramatic potential regardless of the likely plagiarism.
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It's moving a bit too closely into, say, X-Men territory in terms of the idea of ostracizing people based on their status, but I'm no comic book fan and I think it has some dramatic potential regardless of the likely plagiarism.
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It's moving a bit too closely into, say, X-Men territory in terms of the idea of ostracizing people based on their status, but I'm no comic book fan and I think it has some dramatic potential regardless of the likely plagiarism.
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It's moving a bit too closely into, say, X-Men territory in terms of the idea of ostracizing people based on their status, but I'm no comic book fan and I think it has some dramatic potential regardless of the likely plagiarism.
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It's moving a bit too closely into, say, X-Men territory in terms of the idea of ostracizing people based on their status, but I'm no comic book fan and I think it has some dramatic potential regardless of the likely plagiarism.
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It's moving a bit too closely into, say, X-Men territory in terms of the idea of ostracizing people based on their status, but I'm no comic book fan and I think it has some dramatic potential regardless of the likely plagiarism.
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NYT can hire William Buckley Jr.'s son who actually endorsed Obama, made a big deal of his endorsement, and blamed National Review, his father's publication for "ostracizing" him, and National Review's readers for not being nice to him any more.
"The real grounds for firing Kristol are that he didn’t take his column seriously." Ann Althouse 2009
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Do you mean officially, as an act of the state, or rather as a particular mosque "ostracizing" one of its parishioners?
"Mrs Gibbons technically faces three charges - insulting Islam, inciting religious hatred and contempt for religious beliefs..." Ann Althouse 2007
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