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Recent Examples of excommunication
The ruling from Circuit Court Judge Lisa Walsh comes after a nearly three-year-long dispute that has led to dueling lawsuits, allegations of fraud and the excommunication of longtime parish leaders.
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Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
Cardinal electors must sign an oath of secrecy and seclusion, under threat of excommunication.
—Daniel Burke, NPR, 6 May 2025
In 1591, Pope Gregory XIV forbade all betting on the election of the pope, under penalty of excommunication.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 22 Apr. 2025
And the leadership at Egypt’s al-Azhar, the world’s leading Sunni seminary and academic institution, repudiated the dominant Saudi discourse on sectarianism—the excommunication of Shiites—and strongly defended Shiism as a mainstream Muslim denomination.
—Payam Mohseni, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2017
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Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
Cardinal electors must sign an oath of secrecy and seclusion, under threat of excommunication.
—Daniel Burke, NPR, 6 May 2025
In 1591, Pope Gregory XIV forbade all betting on the election of the pope, under penalty of excommunication.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 22 Apr. 2025
And the leadership at Egypt’s al-Azhar, the world’s leading Sunni seminary and academic institution, repudiated the dominant Saudi discourse on sectarianism—the excommunication of Shiites—and strongly defended Shiism as a mainstream Muslim denomination.
—Payam Mohseni, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excommunication
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Astin’s remarks come after a formal condemnation of Norwood from SAG-AFTRA, as well as outcry from dozens of actors, including Emily Blunt, Melissa Barrera, Lukas Gage and more.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s latest tour de force is an absurdist, boldly surprising condemnation of his homeland.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
30 Sep. 2025
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Mike Hallquist to make a motion for Seals's censure, which failed and was followed by cheering support by Seals' supporters.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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The House voted to table the resolution 214-213, preventing it from moving to debate and a vote on the underlying censure, effectively ending Mace’s effort to formally reprimand Omar and remove her from committees.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
20 Sep. 2025
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Far from being simply a denunciation of marginalization, the song becomes a sincere embrace of vulnerable childhoods, highlighting the pain of those who grow up in poverty, neglect, and, often, are forced into crime as a means of survival.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
26 Sep. 2025
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Cinema sometimes has to know how to give in to a cause, but another thing entirely is to impoverish cinema by attributing to documentary cinema a mere and strict role of denunciation.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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By the nineteen-nineties, what had formerly been private damnation was becoming public spectacle.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Theology and damnation and the light of the world barely stand a chance against a good four-minute visit to camp.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Excommunication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excommunication. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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