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- verb Common misspelling of
ostracize .
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Examples
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To those who ostricize him and telling him to shut up, welcome to America.
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In this society we radther ostricize someone that at one time the world was in love with.
VOTD: Spike Jonze’s We Were Once A Fairytale, Starring Kanye West | /Film 2009
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If you don't parrot party-line talking points, they ostricize you from family/work/society.
"I think this is the end of Edwards's campaign. He's through!" Ann Althouse 2007
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Repubs going more and more right, they will start to ostricize even more of their center-right voters and will lose a lotta votes.
First Read - First Read's Column - Articles and Seeds First Read 2010
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John Amaechi should not get any special priveleges because he came out of the closet nor is it fair to ostricize him because he did.
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