1
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
Within 30 days, registrations would be required, proofs of freedom demanded, and Black residents lacking two white sponsors willing to post the $500 bond would be banished.
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Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
The man in the suit, banished from Faik Ağa, had taken up a spot at Irfan’s café.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Located next to the Rainbow Room where Eleven honed her telekinetic skills—and banished Henry to the Upside Down—the office is filled with notebooks.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
That plan goes badly, resulting in Gabriel being banished to Earth to reside among us mortals.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
Disruption and sadness shall be banished.
—Literary Hub, 17 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
Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
The man in the suit, banished from Faik Ağa, had taken up a spot at Irfan’s café.
—David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Located next to the Rainbow Room where Eleven honed her telekinetic skills—and banished Henry to the Upside Down—the office is filled with notebooks.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
That plan goes badly, resulting in Gabriel being banished to Earth to reside among us mortals.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
Disruption and sadness shall be banished.
—Literary Hub, 17 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for banished
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The film is set in 1935 Tartu and at the University of Tartu, where, a year earlier, Professor Lazar Gulkowitsch, exiled from Germany, had established a chair of Judaic Studies within the Faculty of Philosophy.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Nov. 2025
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Krasinski also has the least interesting yet very successful Hollywood career imaginable, but that doesn’t mean he should be exiled or worse.—
Choire Sicha,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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The domestic violence case was dismissed and the theft charge had yet to be disputed in court.—
Tamia Fowlkes,
jsonline.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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Carrie, meanwhile, is villainized for her admittedly deluded quest to reunite with her biological son in a world that has dismissed them.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
8 Nov. 2025
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Thus far, Arsenal’s excellent form has relegated the injuries to a subplot.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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And that feeling of attachment, as Friedman sees it, is not relegated to vintage.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
8 Nov. 2025
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After a replay review, Bane was ejected from the game after being assessed both a technical foul and a flagrant foul for his transgression.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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Of the eight monkeys that were ejected from their cages, five were killed in the hunt for them and three remained on the loose before Sunday.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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Most people deported to Tapachula are not from southern Mexico, said Ivana Saldivar, who heads the Tapachula office of the United Nations' International Organization for Migration.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
USA Today,
9 Nov. 2025
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That comment had been recorded by Von when a fan told him her friend got deported and asked him to record a message.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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Then Oliver splashes his blameless girlfriend in the face, and the three men flee, chased by a group of enraged barflies.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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The investigation seemed to stall after her body was found as police chased leads that did not pan out.—
Katie Langford,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
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After Julia outed their affair in the one true bombshell of the season and Adriana wowed everyone by bringing up a Haitian mortician who got a free coffee maker (an excellent Halloween costume, BTW), the next season will just be the two of them sniping and shouting.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Carly was outed as the niece of Hanks in the premiere by fellow contestant Hugo after her ties to fame were hinted at with a park bench — from Hanks' iconic movie Forrest Gump — earlier in the show.—
Sarah Jones,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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Mahmood Mamdani, the mayor-elect’s father, is a Columbia University professor and political scientist originally from Uganda who was expelled by dictator Idi Amin.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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The campaign began with an air offensive in January 1991, followed by a swift ground assault that expelled Iraqi forces within 100 hours.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Banished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banished. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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