as in banishment
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Recent Examples of exclusion
Belu-Simion Fainaru, the artist set to represent Israel at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, has issued a reply to the participating artists and curators demanding the country’s exclusion over its sustained bombing of Gaza.
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News Desk, Artforum, 6 Apr. 2026
Displacement and exclusion The current crisis also raises deeper questions about who is able to participate in Lebanon’s political life.
—Jasmin Lilian Diab, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2026
Empower responded, essentially, that retirement savers deserve a crack at the lucrative private investment market, after decades of exclusion.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
The word pariah in English maintains the sense of social exclusion informed by a negative ethical judgment of social value.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
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News Desk, Artforum, 6 Apr. 2026
Displacement and exclusion The current crisis also raises deeper questions about who is able to participate in Lebanon’s political life.
—Jasmin Lilian Diab, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2026
Empower responded, essentially, that retirement savers deserve a crack at the lucrative private investment market, after decades of exclusion.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
The word pariah in English maintains the sense of social exclusion informed by a negative ethical judgment of social value.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exclusion
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But how Andrew’s de facto banishment would affect his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, wasn’t known.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
31 Mar. 2026
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Both view the Lebanese government as still completely incapable of disarming Hezbollah, though both were shocked at the new assertiveness of Beirut as seen by Tuesday’s banishment of Iran’s ambassador.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
26 Mar. 2026
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During the global debt crisis of the 1980s, the choice between debt servicing by means of an IMF program and ostracism from global markets was put on broad display.—
Sven van Mourik,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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In some cases, people who take these risks experience potentially negative social consequences such as disapproval, ostracism and career setbacks.—
Catherine A. Sanderson,
The Conversation,
3 Mar. 2026
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The incident happened during dismissal in a Millard Lefler Middle School hallway on Tuesday, April 7, a spokesperson for the school confirmed to PEOPLE on Thursday, April 9.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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The Justice Department has appealed the Oregon, California and Michigan dismissals.—
Rebecca Boone,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Exclusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclusion. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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