banishes

present tense third-person singular of banish

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of banishes Though the episodes ended before Britney revealed her vote, fans are convinced that Britney votes for Danielle and banishes her based on how the episode was edited. Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 28 Feb. 2025 This duo includes a collagen serum and an eye cream that banishes dark circles and tired-looking skin. Taylor Lane, Flow Space, 11 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for banishes
Verb
  • By stopping in 1957, the retelling falsely relegates educational inequality to the past.
    Time, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But that’s not true of the Echo Show, which smartly relegates the screen to secondary importance.
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Judge dismisses case against 'fake electors' in Michigan Congress to hear more about UFOs.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Ashton also dismisses the concerns that a three-year degree lacks the many electives and opportunities for self-discovery.
    Bryan Penprase, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • As a supernova explosion ejects the outer layers of these stars, their stellar cores collapse.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In the city of Cluj, located within the country’s Transylvania region, a bailiff named Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) evicts the homeless Ion (Gabriel Spahiu) from the unused cellar of a local house to make way for the construction of the Kontinental boutique hotel.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Cherry, freed from police custody, shows up at the house, and Laura chases her up and down the stairs with a knife.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For example, much of the industry chases bragging rights on public benchmarks, which rank models on tasks like math or logic puzzles.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, Carrie’s holiday is filled with a revolving door of haughty art dealers and Gen Z queerdos, one of whom clogs the toilet and expels a sea of brown that Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is forced to clean up.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • However, picking better candidates not only makes tactical sense but also removes much of the opportunity for the other side to tear them down.
    Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This agreement removes that barrier to equal access for passengers with disabilities and provides a mechanism to compensate those harmed by Uber's past wait time fee policy.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Banishes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banishes. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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