expulse

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Recent Examples of expulse In this case, shed doesn’t mean put in the tool shed but rather release or expulse the live virus into your surroundings. Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 8 May 2021 To expulse the Russian team from the Pyeongchang Games? Rebecca R. Ruiz, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expulse
Verb
  • Otherwise, people could end up eliminating outperforming funds from the outset.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 14 May 2025
  • But the width of those bands also makes a difference in eliminating interference and increasing speeds.
    Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • Investigators suspected the two killings were related but ran out of leads and the cases went cold.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 13 May 2025
  • The program became so popular that the money ran out much faster than anticipated.
    Sophie Clark, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
Verb
  • The track led the list — which excludes sales and streaming data from America and reflects what the rest of the world is consuming — for 19 frames.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
  • Growth in revenue from Amazon's third-party seller services more than halved to 7% in the first quarter, excluding the impact of foreign exchange.
    Deborah Mary Sophia and Arriana McLymore, USA Today, 3 May 2025
Verb
  • Poor tenants unable to pay their rent claimed they were evicted; not an uncommon practice at the time, or since, but one that advantages the powerful over the weak.
    Nic Robertson, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The territories from which Dodik has evicted Bosnian state institutions are, not coincidentally, the same ones in which Serbian forces committed genocide against Bosniaks in the 1990s.
    Ismet Fatih Cancar, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The birds stuck around for the secretive voting process, but appeared to clear out at 3 p.m. ET, when the cardinals expelled black smoke from the chimney to indicate that a decision on the next pope is yet to be made, per USA Today.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 8 May 2025
  • Without delay, the Taichung fired its water cannon to expel the Chinese ship from the area, the agency said.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
Verb
  • This pulse can trigger a process known as electromagnetic dissociation, in which a photon interacts with a nucleus, inducing internal oscillations that eject neutrons and photons.
    Victoria Corless, Space.com, 13 May 2025
  • The rider, a 22-year-old man from El Cajon, was ejected from the bike and pronounced dead at the scene.
    Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2025
Verb
  • The president lost the 2020 election and was cast out into Florida.
    Miles Bryan, Vox, 20 Feb. 2025
  • After releasing the bass, Codd cast out again and hooked another triple on the same rig.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 12 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Just earlier that day, the acting head of FEMA was ousted after expressing opposition to dismantling the agency.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 10 May 2025
  • Meets with Mamdani, Lander on coveted mayoral endorsement National Politics Acting FEMA chief fired one day after congressional testimony The acting director of FEMA was ousted on Thursday, a day after testifying to a congressional committee that the agency should not be dismantled.
    New York Daily News, New York Daily News, 8 May 2025

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“Expulse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expulse. Accessed 18 May. 2025.

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