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Recent Examples of excommunication
Catholics who read titles on the Index of Forbidden Books risked excommunication.
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Joëlle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
They are set to be bailed out in two days, and the colony’s bishop demands that the victims forgive them—or else face excommunication and be denied a spot in heaven.
—Ruth Madievsky, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
But there are 10 narrow circumstances in which excommunication is not automatic — and Pope Francis in 2016 granted Catholic priests a right once limited to bishops: to absolve those who have had abortions.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 13 Oct. 2024
The Vatican said Viganò had been told of the excommunication and that only the Holy See could lift the sanction.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN, 5 July 2024
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Joëlle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
They are set to be bailed out in two days, and the colony’s bishop demands that the victims forgive them—or else face excommunication and be denied a spot in heaven.
—Ruth Madievsky, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
But there are 10 narrow circumstances in which excommunication is not automatic — and Pope Francis in 2016 granted Catholic priests a right once limited to bishops: to absolve those who have had abortions.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 13 Oct. 2024
The Vatican said Viganò had been told of the excommunication and that only the Holy See could lift the sanction.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN, 5 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excommunication
Noun
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The latest attack sparked outrage and drew international condemnation, including from U.S. President Donald Trump.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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The time for condemnation is over, Denmark's representative, Christina Markus Lassen, said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Similarly, in the legal profession, lawyers who violate state bar codes of conduct are subject to discipline, such as censure, suspension, or loss of license to practice law.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
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Representative Lauren Boebert has criticized her colleague Representative Chrissy Houlahan, the Pennsylvania Democrat who introduced a motion of censure against the Colorado Republican on Monday.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
12 Mar. 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 3 May. 2025.
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