as in to eliminate
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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.
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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
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
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This includes thinking vertically and adding hooks to dangle gear on wall space or finding ways to pop in clever items, like storage benches, that double as organizational features and help eliminate dust buildup.—
Michelle Mastro,
Architectural Digest,
23 Oct. 2025
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Ursillo and other opponents who spoke during the public hearing had urged the Zoning Commission to delay a vote to allow time to consider potential changes, such as eliminating special exceptions and keeping lower height limits intact around the Boston Common.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food purchasing assistance to low-income people in the country, will reportedly run out of government funding by the end of October if the shutdown continues.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Oct. 2025
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If those systems fail—or simply run out of diesel—the plant would have no way to stop the nuclear fuel inside those reactors from overheating and potentially melting down.—
Simon Shuster,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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ByteDance would be represented by one person on the board, but they would be excluded from any security matters or related committees.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
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Lakeside Memorial Park in downtown Forest Lake is excluded from the distance requirements due to the close proximity of downtown to the park, Chaika said.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
26 Oct. 2025
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And the mass graves of corpses evicted from San Francisco cemeteries a century ago.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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The outlet added that Buckingham Palace officials are urging him to leave voluntarily, as he cannot be evicted under the terms of his current lease.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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There’s a wonderful chapter in which an older woman extolls a younger one to tell a painful story not with words, but with movements, so as to expel her pain without enlisting narrative’s power to summon, and thus force a re-living, of painful events.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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In at least three Sahel states — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — military juntas that came to power in coups, notably Niger and Mali, have expelled Western military forces.—
Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
19 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Matthew Hubble, 37, of Brookland, Arkansas, was out on a boat with friends when he was ejected.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
20 Oct. 2025
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In Mali, French forces were ejected in 2022 after battling Islamist terror groups for nine years.—
Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
19 Oct. 2025
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At the head of it all is Jones, who was cast out by the New York Giants a mere season ago.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
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Lower than proletariat workers, the lumpenproletariat includes the indigent and the unemployable, those cast out of the workforce with no recourse, or those who can’t enter it in the first place, such as young workers in times of economic depression.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
8 Oct. 2025
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The abduction took place only about 100 yards from the presidential palace in Niamey, where ousted President Mohamed Bazoum has been held since he was toppled by a coup more than two years ago, according to CBS News.—
Michael Dorgan , Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Now, of course, that watch has been ousted by this other Ref.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Expulse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expulse. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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