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guilt by association
- 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.
鈥淗is critics continue to engage in guilt by association for comments that were not his,鈥 De Le贸n鈥檚 attorney said in a lawsuit targeting two people whom De Le贸n suspected of making the recording.
This allowed the researchers to group genes into common clusters that revealed the role of each gene through "guilt by association."
Osborne鈥檚 lawyers accused prosecutors of engaging in 鈥済uilt by association鈥 to argue that he, like the Pollocks and Hutchinson, is a flight risk.
The ban, some argued, was akin to 鈥淢arxist鈥 and 鈥渓eftist鈥 tactics, and would create guilt by association that could be problematic for the party, its leaders and candidates.
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