EVICTION Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

eviction

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as in removal

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Recent Examples of eviction For a renter to be eligible to have their record cleared, three years must have passed since the eviction without another eviction judgment. — Cuyler Dunn, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026 Thursday broadcasts will continue to feature the live eviction component. — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 The eviction crisis arose when federal officials announced last year that the $5-billion emergency voucher program approved by Congress in 2021 was running out of funds at the end of 2026. — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026 Another store at a Charlotte-area mall is facing eviction, with court documents claiming over $100,000 in unpaid rent. — Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026 Before tucking into a feast of comfort foods, lunch and dinner guests learn about the landmark’s turbulent history and eventual eviction from its original location less than a mile away. — Midwest Living, 6 July 2026 The Silver Court Homeowners Association is challenging the eviction in court. — Jessica Lipscomb, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026 Stringer also won fifth place in Housing and Land-Use Reporting for a story on Bay Area eviction cases five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. — Bryce Martin, Mercury News, 2 July 2026 Sacramento Steps Forward is using its $8 million largely to help prevent families at risk of eviction from becoming homeless, as well as move-in and move-out assistance, said Kim Winters, nonprofit spokesperson. — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026

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In severe cases, particularly when other treatments have failed, a hysterectomy with or without removal of the ovaries may also be considered.

— Daryl Austin, USA Today, 7 July 2026
Refer to your owner’s manual for specific filter removal instructions.

— Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 6 July 2026

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The center dome is manufactured using a chemical vapor deposition process, where diamond is grown as a crystalline layer before the substrate is removed, leaving a self-supporting diamond dome.

— Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Judge Wang found in January that Monaco was not adequately prepared for his first deposition and ordered him to sit for another in April.

— Molly Crane Newman, Mercury News, 9 July 2026

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Macron’s landmark visit, the first by a major Western leader since Bashar Assad’s ouster, brought pledges to restore ambassadors, ease sanctions and fund reconstruction from shattered utilities to Damascus airport cargo facilities.

— Omar Albam, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
Macron, who arrived in Damascus last night, is the first major Western leader to visit the country since Bashar al-Assad’s ouster in 2024.

— Peter Weber, TheWeek, 7 July 2026

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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

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Still, the timing of Saturday’s announcement suggests the protests — the biggest string of rallies since the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 — have played a role.

— Reuters, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
Haitian soldiers seasoned on American battlefields during the revolution later sparked Haiti’s overthrow of French colonial rule, depriving France of its most profitable slave colony and ending one of the most brutal enslavement of human beings in modern world history.

— Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2026

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