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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
Noun
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The impact of the story, as audio of Hind’s voice from that call went viral on social media, sparked global condemnation.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2025
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That limitation was underscored this summer when the US launched air strikes on Iran, with China and Russia offering little in assistance apart from verbal condemnation of the attacks.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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The censure resolution stated that McIver is alleged to have slammed her forearm into the body of an HSI officer, in addition to forcibly grabbing the officer.—
Jenna Sundel
Jason Lemon,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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Democratic leaders had planned to introduce the censure resolution Thursday afternoon and consider it Friday.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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His denunciation did little to change their policy.—
Rosalyn R. LaPier,
The Conversation,
12 Aug. 2025
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Analysts argued the deal would be a nonstarter even before Zelensky’s public denunciation of any territorial concessions.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Aug. 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 9 Sep. 2025.
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