excommunication

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for excommunication
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Noun
  • Kremlin propagandists have disparaged NATO members' reaction to Europe's condemnation of Moscow after Russian drones breached the territory of Poland.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • His death has drawn condolences — and condemnation of political violence — from both sides of the aisle.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Walsh is seeking both a public censure and the judge’s removal from the bench.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 9 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Public denunciations grow Rokita's request comes as several grassroots efforts grow to publicly shame and punish Kirk’s detractors.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Their opposition turned to bitter denunciation last week after state government was exempted from its impact.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • By the nineteen-nineties, what had formerly been private damnation was becoming public spectacle.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • 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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