as in to eject
to force (someone) to leave a place
His landlord has threatened to evict him if he doesn't pay the rent soon. They were evicted from their apartment.
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Recent Examples of evict
You cannot be evicted from your home from one day to the next.
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Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
This arrangement held true for many years, but is seemingly broken now after both were evicted from Royal Lodge and went their separate ways.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 19 Apr. 2026
But without adequate funding, people may be evicted, Saxton said.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2026
Laura Zapata is the latest houseguest to be evicted from Telemundo‘s La Casa de los Famosos, and her elimination sent shockwaves through the house.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026
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Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
This arrangement held true for many years, but is seemingly broken now after both were evicted from Royal Lodge and went their separate ways.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 19 Apr. 2026
But without adequate funding, people may be evicted, Saxton said.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2026
Laura Zapata is the latest houseguest to be evicted from Telemundo‘s La Casa de los Famosos, and her elimination sent shockwaves through the house.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evict
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The Lake Wales boy was ejected onto the eastbound center lane of I-4.—
Elainie Colton,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 Apr. 2026
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McCullough’s day ended early Sunday when he was ejected in the top of the second inning after arguing with first base umpire Cory Blaser over a balk call on first baseman Connor Norby during a pickoff attempt.—
Noah Gulley,
Miami Herald,
19 Apr. 2026
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By the end of that show, the anxiety and isolation that freight life in the closet had burned away, leaving a happy, hopeful ending in place of familiar narrative disaster; love is found, secrecy is banished, and all is well.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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Something’s lost in the translation, but with dazzling costumes, hyper-energetic singing and dancing and joyful spirit filling the Nederlander, quibbles end up banished beyond the flats.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
20 Apr. 2026
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Packwood resigned in 1995 after the Senate Ethics Commission voted unanimously to expel him.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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No direct hits are required; shock waves from a jet can ripple across hundreds of thousands of light-years to churn galactic gas into stars or to extinguish star formation entirely by expelling those gas reservoirs into intergalactic space.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2026
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As part of her agreement to plead guilty, prosecutors will dismiss four felony counts of perjury, procurement or false or forged document to be filed, and two counts of not being entitled to vote in an election.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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Though often dismissed as bubblegum soul, the early Jackson 5 hits were intricate and infectious.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2026
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Carlos crossed the border in 1997 and was deported.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
23 Apr. 2026
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Brand Jimenez also fabricated a stay of deportation order and provided it to one of his victims as proof that the victim would not be deported, officials said.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
23 Apr. 2026
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Calling his father and uncle gusanos — or worms, a Spanish-language term coined by Castro to denigrate those fleeing the island — the agent seized the bank and in an instant dispossessed a family that arrived from Spain in the 16th century.—
Joshua Goodman,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
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The growth of colonial Australian society came at the expense of the Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who were often dispossessed of their land, exposed to foreign diseases, and either pushed into marginal areas or forcibly assimilated into European culture.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
19 Mar. 2026
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Gilbert estimated that about 100 boys from his high school class were either exiled or left to their own accord.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
15 Apr. 2026
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The last ruler of the empire, Bahadur Shah II (reigned 1837–57), was deposed by the British colonial powers and exiled to Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar), after his reluctant involvement in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
14 Apr. 2026
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The Packers are chasing a fourth straight playoff berth after going 9-8-1 and losing 31-27 to the Chicago Bears in the NFC wild-card playoff round last season.—
Steve Megargee,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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Joseph Wright chased that question in the set of paintings that the National Gallery is currently exhibiting.—
Julian Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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