as in banished
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 evicted
His older brother, King Charles, stripped him of his titles and evicted him from Royal Lodge after all.
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Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 31 Mar. 2026
Social workers estimated that nearly 100,000 Parisian Jews had been evicted from their apartments during the war.
—Shannon Fogg, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026
An investigation found that Michael Albright and Heather Dunlap were the owners and had previously been evicted from the home.
—Patrick Damp, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
Luari also was evicted from a second bakery location in West Hartford’s Blue Back Square that never opened.
—Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2026
They had even been evicted from their home, and counted coins to take the subway.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
Villagers could be forcibly evicted from their land, which was then divided into oil blocks and sold off to petroleum companies.
—Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
The leader of Black Lives Matter OKC was being evicted from a rental house in northeast Oklahoma City in October 2022.
—Brianna Bailey, The Frontier, 24 Mar. 2026
And if a single payment was missed, they were evicted.
—Tonika Lewis Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 31 Mar. 2026
Social workers estimated that nearly 100,000 Parisian Jews had been evicted from their apartments during the war.
—Shannon Fogg, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026
An investigation found that Michael Albright and Heather Dunlap were the owners and had previously been evicted from the home.
—Patrick Damp, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2026
Luari also was evicted from a second bakery location in West Hartford’s Blue Back Square that never opened.
—Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2026
They had even been evicted from their home, and counted coins to take the subway.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
Villagers could be forcibly evicted from their land, which was then divided into oil blocks and sold off to petroleum companies.
—Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
The leader of Black Lives Matter OKC was being evicted from a rental house in northeast Oklahoma City in October 2022.
—Brianna Bailey, The Frontier, 24 Mar. 2026
And if a single payment was missed, they were evicted.
—Tonika Lewis Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evicted
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While Vitello was banished to his office, the Giants lost a lot more than that.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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Finish last in the Social Darwinism of a European football league, and you’re banished to a lower division of the game.—
Andrés Martinez,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
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Bucknor, who has been an MLB umpire since 1996, ejected Red Sox manager Alex Cora after calling Trevor Story out on a check swing.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Patience, who was a senior at Chapel Hill High School, was ejected from the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
1 Apr. 2026
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Dali had nearly been expelled from the Surrealist movement in 1934 for refusing to denounce the Nazis, and yet his star still burned bright.—
Serena Turner,
Vanity Fair,
30 Mar. 2026
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Azabal plays Layal, a tightly wound Arabic professor whose troubled teenage son Daniel (Zolghadri) is expelled from high school, prompting her to escort him from Indiana to California to live with his estranged father.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
30 Mar. 2026
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When a Groyper account on X suggested that Jewish people were responsible for contemporary German immigration policy, Rogers, using her official State Department account, dismissed the claim as nonsense.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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And yet, when HB 1098 was introduced in 2023, critics dismissed it as a solution in search of a problem.—
Lisa Frizell,
Denver Post,
6 Apr. 2026
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Dillon said the tortoise was still roaming the grounds of the governor's residence on the island best known as the place Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to following his defeat by the British at Waterloo in 1815.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2026
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The last ruler of the empire, Bahadur Shah II, was deposed by the British colonial powers and exiled to Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), after his involvement in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
30 Mar. 2026
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Thousands of immigrants were detained and many were deported during the months-long mass deportation campaign in Chicago last fall known as Operation Midway Blitz.—
Laura Turbay,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained over 260 DACA recipients and deported more than 80 in 2025 alone.—
Mary Ellen Klas,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Isaiah Evans slipped trying to curl to the rim and Solo Ball scooped up the ball, racing toward the basket, chased by the likely player of the year, Cam Boozer.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2026
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Without hesitation, Gunner flew down the stairs to the yard and chased after the bunny.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 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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As Morocco’s indigenous inhabitants, El Hammoumy continued, the Berbers are like other native peoples around the world who have been systematically dispossessed of their lands and heritage for centuries.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Evicted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evicted. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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