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guilt by association

  1. The attribution of guilt to individuals because of the people or organizations with which they associate, rather than because of any crime that they have committed.


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Morris, who is Black, called claims of racism preposterous and said it was a campaign of guilt by association.

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“His critics continue to engage in guilt by association for comments that were not his,” De León’s attorney said in a lawsuit targeting two people whom De León suspected of making the recording.

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This allowed the researchers to group genes into common clusters that revealed the role of each gene through "guilt by association."

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Osborne’s lawyers accused prosecutors of engaging in “guilt by association” to argue that he, like the Pollocks and Hutchinson, is a flight risk.

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The ban, some argued, was akin to “Marxist” and “leftist” tactics, and would create guilt by association that could be problematic for the party, its leaders and candidates.

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