EJECTION Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

ejection

noun

Definition of ejection

as in expulsion

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Recent Examples of ejection The Swiss played a good chunk of the match with 10 men after review changed a yellow card on an Argentine player into a second yellow card (and an ejection) for one of their own. — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 13 July 2026 Giants manager Tony Vitello came out to argue the call and was ejected by plate umpire Lance Barksdale, the second ejection this season for the first-year skipper. — ABC News, 11 July 2026 Notably, American striker Folarin Balogun was permitted to play by FIFA despite receiving a red card and ejection in the prior game. — Alex Harring, CNBC, 7 July 2026 The ejection seemed to spark the Padres back from a season-high eight-game losing streak, though the Dodgers didn’t make the win easy at times. — Liana Handler follow, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026 The ejection would have forced him to miss the Belgium match on Monday. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 5 July 2026 All that intense drama unfolded after Balogun’s ejection, which came upon a replay review (Video Assistant Referee). — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 2 July 2026 But in this case, the ejection was absolutely unnecessary and, frankly, embarrassing for Lentz. — Levi Weaver, New York Times, 30 June 2026 Instead, his locker was cleared out by the time reporters entered the Yankees’ clubhouse, leaving Boone to answer for the ejection. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026

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Noun

National research links suspension and expulsion to lower academic achievement, a higher risk of contact with the criminal justice system, isolation, poor health and lower wages, the report said.

— Bryant Furlow, ProPublica, 13 July 2026
Refusal to participate or pass these exams routinely results in expulsion, arrest, or the institution’s closure.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026

Definition of expulsion

Noun

Last week, the country's Supreme Court upheld a seven-year prison sentence against Yoon, his first case to reach the country’s highest court since the ouster.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 July 2026
Along with Amy’s ouster, several core staff members at the Barn, as the space is known, resigned, including the general manager, operations manager, and studio manager.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2026

Definition of ouster

Noun

He’s been dealt the difficult hand of overseeing a roster overhaul and the team’s temporary relocation to West Sacramento expected to run through next season, with his pitching staff struggling to be effective in the band-box of Sutter Health Park.

— Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
DIYers who have experience with rewiring switches, moving light fixtures, or any other basic electrical work around the home will likely be okay to handle a thermostat relocation.

— Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 15 July 2026

Definition of relocation

Noun

Officials caution that not everyone reported missing is necessarily trapped beneath the rubble because communications failures, mass displacement and transportation disruptions have complicated efforts to reunite families.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 4 July 2026
But any displacement by immigrants is limited and often dwarfed, as Card's research found, by job increases from new or expanding businesses that immigrants generate.

— Robert Hormats, Time, 4 July 2026

Definition of displacement

Noun

Dajani has also worked on boards for a refugee resettlement organization and the Association of Arab American studies and served on scholarship committees at the Mosque of Orland Park.

— Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
Now disarmed, the dissidents will enter a temporary resettlement zone where the government intends to facilitate their gradual reintegration into civilian life.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 June 2026

Definition of resettlement

Noun

The fire began Saturday and quickly grew, reaching more than 4,000 acres by the end of the day and prompting evacuation orders.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
The arrival of the modular barges dramatically increased evacuation capacity, allowing rescuers to move hundreds of people during each trip.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026

Definition of evacuation

Noun

Sore from the torment of her family’s banishment, Espinoza feels the pulse of current events.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
The appeals court ruled in September 2025 that Mid Vermont Christian must be allowed to participate in state athletics, after two years of banishment had passed.

— Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of banishment

Noun

Teaming with Louvenson, a Haitian artist living in the Dominican Republic, the director sets out to recreate those missing memories through stop-motion animation as Louvenson shares his own experience of migration.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 13 July 2026
The landscape contains ancestral villages, ceremonial and burial sites and features in some tribes’ creation and migration stories.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 July 2026

Definition of migration

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