ostracized

past tense of ostracize

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ostracized While she was never found guilty of a crime, she was ostracized from society more than ever before. — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2026 Some felt ostracized by family and peers who considered sustainable farming and environmentalism itself to be anti-farmer and anti-rural. — Sydney Giacalone, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2026 After opening up about his gender identity and sexuality to another youth at a group home in rural Oregon, Rin quickly regretted it, feeling ostracized from the other youth by his caregivers and misunderstood. — Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026 Interracial families were ostracized, and mixed-race children were excluded from the Baptist mission schools. — H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 4 Sep. 2026 Despite the verdict Lizzie was ostracized by the people of Fall River. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026 Parsi society ostracized Ruttie, and her father summoned the couple to court, alleging that Jinnah had abducted her. — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026 While the boys focus on their rodeo careers, Jojo feels ostracized by the more traditional women riders and cowgirls. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026 Throwing a pupil to the media risks being ostracized from the inner circles. — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ostracized
Verb
  • Osborn has been traveling across Nebraska to hold meetings in all 93 counties and has repeatedly criticized Ricketts for not holding town halls to meet with constituents.
    — NICHOLAS INGRAM, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Hinojosa has campaigned on her tenure as a civil rights lawyer and criticized Abbott’s crime policies as violating civil liberties.
    — Matt Brown, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Friday that Ukraine attacked four Russian oil refineries overnight, but air defenses fended off the attacks.
    — HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Trust took another nosedive when OpenAI’s agents attacked Hugging Face this summer and, in a world-first, a rogue model hacked the Australian Government’s website.
    — Yerbol Orynbayev, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The fashion publication 1 Granary chimed in, suggesting that a number of industry figures who denounced the collection would later shop it.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Abraham and Szor, both Israeli filmmakers, have been denounced as traitors in Israel, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself has threatened to revoke their citizenship.
    — Justin Chang, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Ostracized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ostracized. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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