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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
ostracize .
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Examples
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He’s one of those players who self-ostracizes, which isn’tgood strategy.
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Even though he knows it is far more likely that this building simply decayed as a result of standard Communist neglect, he cannot will his mind from entertaining the notion that it played some formal role for the Wehrmacht during the war and was thus condemned to rot as punishment thereafter, like a backwards culture ostracizes a victim of rape.
A Bear Hunt in Riga Josef K. Strosche 2011
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Now the public ostracizes you and a lot of jobs won't hire you.
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And I will raise my children and grandchildren as Quakers or any other religion that follows the true dictates of the peace of Christ, even if it ostracizes me from my family. normajean
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That in turn has created a culture inside aviation companies that makes safety a primary value and actually ostracizes reckless behavior.
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Regarding the color scheme, I'm not sure about the red, but the blue-state blue further ostracizes Obama by painting Biden as much more the party's man.
Reading The Pictures: Nobel Slam Not Enough, Newsweek Tries To Set White House on Fire 2010
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And the population in the black community ostracizes black folks with disabilities, often.
Low-Income Minorities With Disabilities See Services Disparity 2010
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This time the judge did not find enough "evidence" to convict Ewane, but just being accused ostracizes him in a society that condemns relations between people of the same sex.
Juliana Cano Nieto: Guarded Lives in Cameroon Juliana Cano Nieto 2010
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And then, also, the majority community that ostracizes the folks with disabilities from the urban community.
Low-Income Minorities With Disabilities See Services Disparity 2010
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Regarding the color scheme, I'm not sure about the red, but the blue-state blue further ostracizes Obama by painting Biden as much more the party's man.
Michael Shaw: Reading The Pictures: Nobel Slam Not Enough, Newsweek Tries To Set White House on Fire 2010
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