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as in exiled
to force to leave a country
in the old days, criminals were sometimes banished to distant lands
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as in dismissed
to drive or force out
permanently banished the troublemakers from the youth recreational center
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Recent Examples of banished
The girl only makes selfless wishes, and Iblis is banished to his lamp for a millennia for his failure.
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Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Payton clearly doesn't think the play needs to banished for player safety reasons.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Whether or not Alice lived happily ever after, Gertrude seems to have done so, at least once her devils were banished by inscrutability.
—Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
There’s even a little Kurosawa — from all the stages of his career — in the feudal set-up; while the decadent emperor Kisra (Ben Kingsley) holds court, his enemies are banished.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
The season finale of House of Guinness opens with Patrick Cochrane — the Fenian Brotherhood leader who Edward had banished to New York — secretly returning to Ireland, with both an axe to grind against the Guinnesses and a perilous political mission to carry out.
—Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
There was magic when Patrick Bailey banished Tanner Scott’s fastball into the Oracle Park bleachers, a walk-off grand slam to stun the Dodgers.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
At the end of each challenge, the player who comes in last is banished.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
Upon death, players are banished back to their last save space, many of which need to be unlocked with rosaries.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Kayti Burt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Payton clearly doesn't think the play needs to banished for player safety reasons.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Whether or not Alice lived happily ever after, Gertrude seems to have done so, at least once her devils were banished by inscrutability.
—Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
There’s even a little Kurosawa — from all the stages of his career — in the feudal set-up; while the decadent emperor Kisra (Ben Kingsley) holds court, his enemies are banished.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
The season finale of House of Guinness opens with Patrick Cochrane — the Fenian Brotherhood leader who Edward had banished to New York — secretly returning to Ireland, with both an axe to grind against the Guinnesses and a perilous political mission to carry out.
—Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
There was magic when Patrick Bailey banished Tanner Scott’s fastball into the Oracle Park bleachers, a walk-off grand slam to stun the Dodgers.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
At the end of each challenge, the player who comes in last is banished.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2025
Upon death, players are banished back to their last save space, many of which need to be unlocked with rosaries.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for banished
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Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1948, Vicuña was exiled from her native country in the early 1970s following the violent military coup that ousted President Salvador Allende.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
10 Oct. 2025
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In Sacramento and San Diego, Democrats reign supreme, holding every office and legislative supermajorities so entrenched that opposing views have been exiled.—
John H Bolthouse,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Oct. 2025
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The Chiefs are back, just as quickly as they were dismissed, and that’s in more than ways than post-game one-liners exuding some confidence after a convincing 30-17 win against the red-hot Lions.—
Sam McDowell
October 13,
Kansas City Star,
13 Oct. 2025
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And these cases may very well be dismissed on that basis.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Oct. 2025
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Luton were relegated from the Championship last season, having dropped down from the Premier League the year before.—
Luke Bosher,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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Instead, it was relegated to yet another anticlimactic episode of What Might Have Been.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
11 Oct. 2025
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This advice comes from a study, published in the , which investigated the mechanics of how tear-inducing chemicals are ejected from the vegetable.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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The game got so out of hand that 16 players were ejected — one of whom didn’t even know he was ejected.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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Then the nephew was detained in a traffic stop and deported.—
Melissa Sanchez,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
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Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native who had been living in Maryland with his wife and children, was deported in March to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison -- despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution.—
Laura Romero,
ABC News,
10 Oct. 2025
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Will Brennan hit a ball deep to right field and Pérez chased it down, but couldn’t get to it.—
Ryan Ford,
Freep.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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As Leo chased Genesis around the kitchen, Rosalba and her mother prepared lunch—a delicious meal of chicken cooked in a broth of cinnamon, clove, laurel, and sour orange.—
Simon Willis,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
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Now, Khalid is telling People that being outed, and subsequently being open about his queerness, has had a huge mark on his artistry.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
6 Oct. 2025
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Last year, the singer-songwriter was outed by an ex on social media.—
Jeff Nelson,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Pearson, expelled from the Tennessee House in 2023 after leading a gun control protest, was later reappointed and won a special election, cementing his status as a rising progressive voice.—
Beatrice Peterson,
ABC News,
8 Oct. 2025
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The elder Mamdani grew up in Uganda, in East Africa, in a community of Ugandans of Indian descent, known as the Bayindi, who played a prominent role in the country until Idi Amin expelled them en masse in 1972.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Banished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banished. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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