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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
Woody Brown, a nonverbal author himself, highlights stories that are too often banished to the margins.
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Hamilton Cain, Time, 3 Mar. 2026
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor—formerly Prince Andrew—was banished from all aspects of royal life, including losing all of his royal titles and privileges, last October in a decision made by King Charles.
—Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 27 Feb. 2026
Her competitors easily and near-unanimously tagged her as a traitor and banished her in the third episode.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2026
That was Natalie Anderson after being erroneously banished by her fellow Faithful on the most recent episode of The Traitors.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Feb. 2026
Bird seemed to be torn between Indiana and Indiana State, a small program that was playing in the hinterlands of Division I basketball, in danger of being banished to Division II, about to fire its head coach, and incapable of filling its new arena in Terre Haute.
—Keith O'Brien, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2026
The law banished tests in Spanish and Creole.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
Did Stephen Colletti get banished?
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 19 Feb. 2026
Despite a few incorrect reads earlier in the season, the chef finally started cooking right before her death, calling out the singer for being too quiet and not offering any opinion at the roundtable, where Stephen Colletti was banished.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
Hamilton Cain, Time, 3 Mar. 2026
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor—formerly Prince Andrew—was banished from all aspects of royal life, including losing all of his royal titles and privileges, last October in a decision made by King Charles.
—Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 27 Feb. 2026
Her competitors easily and near-unanimously tagged her as a traitor and banished her in the third episode.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2026
That was Natalie Anderson after being erroneously banished by her fellow Faithful on the most recent episode of The Traitors.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Feb. 2026
Bird seemed to be torn between Indiana and Indiana State, a small program that was playing in the hinterlands of Division I basketball, in danger of being banished to Division II, about to fire its head coach, and incapable of filling its new arena in Terre Haute.
—Keith O'Brien, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2026
The law banished tests in Spanish and Creole.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2026
Did Stephen Colletti get banished?
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 19 Feb. 2026
Despite a few incorrect reads earlier in the season, the chef finally started cooking right before her death, calling out the singer for being too quiet and not offering any opinion at the roundtable, where Stephen Colletti was banished.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for banished
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The protesters included secular left-wingers and nationalists as well as Islamists, but Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a fundamentalist cleric at that time exiled in France, emerged as the movement's undisputed figurehead.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
8 Mar. 2026
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Most of them have been jailed or exiled or arrested or even killed.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Mar. 2026
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After the allegations against his son, the official was dismissed from his post, according to a decision published Wednesday in the state government’s official gazette.—
Eléonore Hughes,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Figures in the main opposition Republican People’s Party, known by its Turkish initials CHP, have dismissed the charges as politically motivated.—
Beril Akman,
Bloomberg,
9 Mar. 2026
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City were relegated in 1996 and 2001 but wasn’t bought by its wealthy Abu Dhabi owners until 2008.—
Joe Prince-Wright,
NBC news,
13 Mar. 2026
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Smith was the team’s starter for 29 games before he was relegated to the bench for his final two seasons.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
13 Mar. 2026
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How do key components of matter — gas, dust, and heavy elements — flow into, get transported throughout, and ejected out of galaxies over time?—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Mar. 2026
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Both were ejected from the motorcycle.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2026
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The camp is intended for short-term stays before detainees are transferred or deported.—
Morgan Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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The fear intensified last week after a Bay Area family said a 6-year-old deaf child who attended a Fremont school was detained by immigration authorities and deported along with his mother and younger brother during what was supposed to be a routine check-in visit at an ICE office in San Francisco.—
Ethan Varian,
Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2026
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The closing sequence, where Scarpetta is chased through her home by the murderer, was filmed on the final day of shooting.—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Kathie Lee Gifford never chased fame.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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The new season sees Reid's Lestat de Lioncourt living the rockstar life, as vampires have been outed by author Daniel Molloy (Eric Bobosian) in his book that interviews Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson).—
Debbie Day,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Mar. 2026
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White segregationists and liberals have outed Black people as deviant to maintain their claims to normalcy and socioeconomic dominance.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Feb. 2026
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Her 13-year-old son goes to the same high school as two of the suspects, who are in the process of being expelled.—
Eléonore Hughes,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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District administrators expelled a Birdville High School student Monday for posting a video on social media showing a Burleson Centennial basketball player’s face edited onto a scene from a show depicting slavery.—
Myah Taylor,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Banished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banished. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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