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boycott
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- They spoke in veiled attacks about his mediation of talks surrounding the black boycotts of Korean businesses across the city.†
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- Another grocer boycott started in the Bronx.†
- De Roos was on the offensive again, trying to spoil Kwang's show with the same questions about his role in the boycotts, suggesting that he was obstructing the efforts of the police and community groups.†
- Black and Korean children, as some in this city would have you believe, aren't yet boycotting one another's corner lemonade stands.†
- The boycotts of Korean grocers were spreading from Brooklyn to other parts of the city, to black neighborhoods in the Bronx and even in his home borough, in the Williamsburg section, and then also in upper Manhattan.†
- They had multiple boycotts to cover.†
- He was appearing on the broadcasts almost nightly because of the boycotts.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(boycott) to refuse to buy things (from someone); or to refuse to participate in an activity (with someone) in order to express disapproval
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)