disbarred

Definition of disbarrednext
past tense of disbar

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for disbarred
Verb
  • Prosecutors will have the chance to question Hale again, and defense attorneys reserved the right to ask for the testimony to ultimately be excluded.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Just a week before, Hassett had been excluded from a White House meeting in which the president decided to impose higher tariffs on Mexico, The New York Times reported.
    Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The athletes are not employees in the legal sense and therefore cannot be prevented from leaving for another university.
    Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • But a landmark land claims settlement in 1980 exempted Maine from federal Indian gaming laws, which has prevented the tribes from opening casinos on their lands.
    Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • After the companies were banned from participating in the Mass Save Program, Cleggett and his coconspirators formed other companies to obtain further funding.
    Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The experts analyzed the videos with us, explaining when and how officers used dangerous tactics that appeared to go against their training or that have been banned under the Department of Homeland Security’s use-of-force policy.
    Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The momager and Hunter denied the allegations laid out in the lawsuit and in the summer of 2023, Tiffany countersued for $30 million, per Insider, saying the mothers of the teenagers were trying to extort her.
    Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
  • But access to the lobby is still being denied.
    Ubah Ali, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Edmundson, who had a goal disallowed earlier, found a loose puck and cranked a slap shot.
    Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • UConn had an apparent winning goal disallowed for off-side, and the winning goal was allowed to stand after a review for interference.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • In each case, agents shot at drivers or into moving cars – a practice that has largely been discouraged by law enforcement because of risks to public safety.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Malinin’s parents, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov, both gifted skaters who competed in the Olympics for Uzbekistan, discouraged him from toddling onto the ice as a boy.
    Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 14 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Women were shut out from the top 100 for the third straight year.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 14 Jan. 2026
  • This could be a bad deal for America’s aspiring homebuyers and for folks shut out of home ownership for now who cherish the prospect of living in a house, even as a rental.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Historically, the water’s purity was singular, giving life to a watershed that flourished because of a unique paucity of nutrients, a situation that hindered the pursuit of any single species that would dominate the rest.
    Amy Green, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Normally, scent voices are mere whispers compared to the screams and angry shouts of humans, but in that section, certain sensitive plant species shrieked incessantly because of their proximity to plants that hindered their growth.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
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“Disbarred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disbarred. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.

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