The government engaged in mass expulsions.
the expulsion of air from the lungs
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Neogy left not during Amin’s Asian expulsion but earlier, after running afoul of the preceding regime, President Milton Obote’s.—Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025 From coverage of the Tennessee Three expulsion votes to the mayoral election and local development, we are deeply invested in the stories that shape our region.—Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025 Yet most of those families are still systematically behind due to racial inequality, and Black families, of all kinds, are facing discrimination that leads to higher suspension and expulsion rates in school, lower on-time high school completion rates, and not enough financial resources.—Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025 Mifepristone blocks the hormone progesterone and softens the cervix to prepare the body for expulsion.—Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for expulsion
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Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French expulsioun, from Latin expulsion-, expulsio, from expellere to expel
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