as in condemnation
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Recent Examples of excommunication
The threat of excommunication did nothing to change their minds.
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Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2013
Thus, for the people of the Andes to be without coca is a form of social and spiritual death, an excommunication from existence itself.
—Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
Catholics who read titles on the Index of Forbidden Books risked excommunication.
—Joëlle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
Thus, for the people of the Andes to be without coca is a form of social and spiritual death, an excommunication from existence itself.
—Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
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Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2013
Thus, for the people of the Andes to be without coca is a form of social and spiritual death, an excommunication from existence itself.
—Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
Catholics who read titles on the Index of Forbidden Books risked excommunication.
—Joëlle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
Thus, for the people of the Andes to be without coca is a form of social and spiritual death, an excommunication from existence itself.
—Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for excommunication
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excommunication
Noun
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Trump had longtime Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden dismissed via email late on May 8, drawing broad condemnation from her supporters in Congress.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
10 May 2025
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The move drew swift condemnation from NATO leaders, who viewed it as a concession to Russian aggression.—
Martha McHardy
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
Noun
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Libby filed her lawsuit against Fecteau to have the censure overturned on March 11.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2025
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The trial committee recommended that Bush receive a confidential letter of censure and a ban from serving as a strike captain for three years.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This one is both meaner-spirited and clumsier, as Brooker grafts his prank call coming from inside the house onto a denunciation of one of the planet’s profoundest manmade evils: the health-care industry.—
Charles Bramesco,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture—which, until recently, was run by The New Yorker’s poetry editor, Kevin Young—comes in for particularly splenetic denunciation.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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However benign or malicious — whatever its life or death, possible eternal salvation or never-ending damnation — this spirit seizes your attention from the get-go because everything in this twisty, technically virtuosic, surprisingly moving chiller is shot from its point of view.—
Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ is growing There are many natural landmarks on our planet named after a biblical destination of eternal damnation.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
25 Dec. 2024
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“Excommunication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excommunication. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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