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Recent Examples of excommunication
The panel also said that a juror might find that the father’s confession before the panel, considering his excommunication also wasn’t privileged.
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Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 30 July 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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Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 30 July 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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The arrest by federal agents of a day care teacher inside a child care center in northwest Chicago has drawn strong condemnation from local leaders.—
Whitney Wild,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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The texts ignited a scandal that drew bipartisan condemnation.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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The City Council also asked for more training and improved policy and procedures on handling similar situations and Councilmember Hon Lien walked back the censure process that began earlier this week.—
Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
25 Oct. 2025
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In doing so, the palace must weigh distancing itself from Andrew with ensuring the blowback from any further censure does not do even more damage to an institution that requires public buy-in.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
21 Oct. 2025
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Senator Ted Cruz on Thursday delivered a sharp denunciation of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, condemning his recent interview with far-right commentator Nick Fuentes and warning that such rhetoric is fueling anti-Israel sentiment among young conservatives.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 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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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 20 Nov. 2025.
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