disbarred

verb

past tense of disbar
as in excluded

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disbarred
  1. excluded
  2. prevented
  3. banned
  4. denied
  5. disallowed
  6. discouraged
  7. shut out
  8. hindered
Verb
  • Employers can contribute up to $2,500 per year under an employer contribution program, and that amount counts toward the $5,000 cap but is generally excluded from the employee’s taxable income when structured through that employer program.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • As previously discussed, thousands of children of Americans abroad are excluded from the initial $1,000 seed deposit because of narrow citizenship and residency definitions.
    — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of excluded
Verb
  • Guests who are, as a result, prevented from booking an entire home, are instead redirected to book private room listings and hotels on the Airbnb platform.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Fable 5 included guardrails that prevented the AI system from assisting with a wide range of cybersecurity- and biology-related tasks.
    — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 1 July 2026
Definition of prevented
Verb
  • When you're banned from a show — and if you guys know me, I'm banned from most of them.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026
  • Florida cities ramped up their enforcement after Tallahassee banned public camping statewide in 2024, telling local governments to get people off their streets or risk lawsuits.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
Definition of banned
Verb
  • Graf denied a defense request to force Robinson's partner to travel from Texas to testify in person.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • Historically, the Catholic Church had denied religious funerals inside its houses of worship as well as traditional burials for those who died in this way.
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of denied
Verb
  • Ramos headed in the winner as Portugal beat Croatia 2-1 in a wild finish that also included a Croatian goal disallowed for offside just before the final whistle in a World Cup round of 32 match on Thursday night.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • But a video review ruled that Waldemar Anton had pushed Gill to the ground before the shot, and the goal was disallowed.
    — Kyle Hightower, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Definition of disallowed
Verb
  • Professors are discouraged from assigning books, supposedly in order to lower students’ financial burden, even as the school has raised various other fees.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • They weren’t discouraged by the full sun above or the extensive bodies in line ahead.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 28 June 2026
Definition of discouraged
Verb
  • Here are three groups of people—both present in your life and taking up space in your mind—who should be shut out.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Against the Blue Jays, the Rangers shut out Toronto for at least the first four innings of each game.
    — Cal Phillips June 29, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 June 2026
Definition of shut out
Verb
  • The Great American State Fair kicked off last week, though the 16-day event has been hindered by weather shutdowns, technical difficulties and low attendance.
    — Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Smith has long complained that Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau, hindered the province’s energy industry and fueled separatist sentiment.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Definition of hindered
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