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Recent Examples of ejection
The veteran forward had just taken an elbow to the head from the Anaheim Ducks’ Leo Carlsson, a hit that resulted in Carlsson’s ejection from the game.
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Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Nov. 2025
There could be an ejection at Kauffman Stadium next week.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2025
College football fans demanded that the officials call a targeting penalty on Downs, which would have led to an ejection.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Walker was distraught heading up the tunnel after his second ejection, having let his emotions get the best of him.
—Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
Linebacker Matt Rose had a game-high 12 tackles despite missing the first half due to his targeting ejection last week.
—Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
Detroit Lions safety Brian Branch's ejection for his role in a postgame brawl during Sunday night's game in Kansas City has become a hot button topic for NFL and Lions fans ever since, with Lions players Alim McNeill and Dan Skipper expressing their anger in recent days.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Tibbetts didn’t mince words about his ejection and the refereeing.
—Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Nov. 2025
There could be an ejection at Kauffman Stadium next week.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2025
College football fans demanded that the officials call a targeting penalty on Downs, which would have led to an ejection.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Walker was distraught heading up the tunnel after his second ejection, having let his emotions get the best of him.
—Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
Linebacker Matt Rose had a game-high 12 tackles despite missing the first half due to his targeting ejection last week.
—Harold Gutmann, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
Detroit Lions safety Brian Branch's ejection for his role in a postgame brawl during Sunday night's game in Kansas City has become a hot button topic for NFL and Lions fans ever since, with Lions players Alim McNeill and Dan Skipper expressing their anger in recent days.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Tibbetts didn’t mince words about his ejection and the refereeing.
—Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ejection
Noun
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Israel’s first occupation of Gaza was characterized by war crimes, massacres, and expulsions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Robert Eggers' first feature tells a folk horror tale about a devout family — led by father William (Ralph Ineson) and his wife, Katherine (Kate Dickie) — living on an isolated farm in 1630s New England after their expulsion from Puritan society.—
Michael Lee Simpson,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Khan blamed the army and the United States for engineering his ouster, and led energetic protests demanding immediate, fresh elections.—
Rafia Zakaria,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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Tidmarsh’s ouster is the latest in a string of haphazard leadership changes at the agency, which has been rocked for months by firings, departures and controversial decisions on vaccines, fluoride and other products.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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Bill Belichick was head coach of those 1995 Browns, a team that entered that season with high expectations (Sports Illustrated picked them to go to the Super Bowl) but finished a disappointing 5-11 as relocation news became a massive distraction for the team.—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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If approved, security officials will review whether the alternative site meets federal standards before any relocation occurs.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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There are two questions Gazans have usually asked each other since the start of this campaign of unrelenting and systematic destruction, starvation, displacement and mass killing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Washington examines varying experiences of displacement, writing with tenderness about the tolls of emigration and exile, both cultural and familial.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Others have shuttered their services, changing the landscape of the refugee resettlement process.—
NPR,
NPR,
31 Oct. 2025
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These include executive orders and regulatory changes to enforce immigration laws more strictly, pause or restrict refugee resettlement, reinstate rapid-expulsion policies like Title 42, expedite deportations, and increase border barrier construction.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Set in contemporary London, Fuze unfolds after an unexploded World War II bomb is unearthed at a busy construction site, forcing a massive citywide evacuation.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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During the 1993 Topanga Canyon fire, neighbor Sean Penn lost his home, and Madigan remembers the harrowing evacuation with her then 9-year-old, Lily.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Neither Father Burke or Sister Irene realize it at the end of the movie, but Valak evades banishment by possessing Frenchie.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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The autocratic czarist regime ruled with an iron hand and suppressed opposition through censorship, banishment, and executions.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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On whale cams, clingy fish steal the show The marine scientist who recorded the accidental close-ups of the remoras’ high-speed whale surfing had placed suction-cup cameras on humpbacks during their annual migration from Antarctica to the waters off Australia’s Queensland state.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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Directed by Alicia Núñez Puerto, the short interweaves migration, past history and menstruation, presenting lineage as something carried across oceans and generations.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Ejection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ejection. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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