kicked out

verb

past tense of kick out
as in dismissed
to drive or force out kicked out of the game for using bad language

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Recent Examples of kicked out As Unifrance Rendez-Vous kicked out yesterday and with its sales team attending, MIAM! — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026 They are shown to have higher rates of suicide attempts and are nearly four times more likely to be kicked out, be abandoned or run away due to negative treatment based on their identity. — Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026 Giants special assistant Ron Wotus considered Vitello’s first-inning ejection by umpire Alan Porter last Friday so unfair that he got kicked out the following day while exchanging lineup cards. — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 During its socialist revolution, the government kicked out many foreign oil companies. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Sep. 2026 Alice has suffered numerous traumas, from her abusive boyfriend to a complicated family history, including being kicked out of the house by her dad at 14. — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2026 Three people were kicked out of the meeting for their outbursts related to polling locations. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Sep. 2026 More than 6 million Afghans fled to neighboring Iran and Pakistan, but both those countries have kicked out nearly all their Afghan refugees in recent years—even Afghans who arrived back in 1979, during the Soviet invasion. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 31 Aug. 2026 Ospreay hit a One Winged Angel on Omega, who kicked out at one. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kicked out
  1. dismissed
  2. ejected
  3. chased
  4. outed
  5. banished
  6. cast out
  7. turned out
  8. ran off
Verb
  • Challenges to Essayli’s position were brought in several criminal cases, with defense lawyers arguing that charges filed under his watch are invalid and should be dismissed.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • One of them, dismissed Sooners quarterback Chris Robison, was the MVP of the 2019 Conference USA championship, Kiffin’s second league title in three seasons.
    — Matt Baker, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of dismissed
Verb
  • Oli Marmol was later ejected after sticking up for Rincon, who was making his MLB debut.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Marmol then came out of the dugout to confront Eddings and was ejected during the Rockies’ five-run inning.
    — Michael Kelly, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of ejected
Verb
  • There’s nothing to commemorate the day federal agents chased Leodegario Martínez Barradas into the parking lot of a car dealership, placed him in handcuffs and led him away.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
  • In that start, Cole was chased after 2 1/3 innings pitched, allowing seven runs.
    — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of chased
Verb
  • Co-owner John Mara is battling cancer, and co-owner Steve Tisch is laying low after being outed in the Epstein Files.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Photoplay’s feature Hollywood’s Unmarried Husbands and Wives outed several of the era’s most bankable couples—Clark Gable and Carole Lombard among them—for the crime of cohabitating without paperwork.
    — Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of outed
Verb
  • Characters banished or murdered early in one version emerge victorious in another.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The whole region, Mencken argued, was a Baptist-Methodist stranglehold where fun and free thought were banished.
    — John Hayes, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of banished
Verb
  • These will show whether the vote was a watershed moment in the demise of an anti-fascist consensus dating back to World War II, or the latest in a series of elections worldwide in which frustrated voters simply cast out incumbents.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
  • These are sons and daughters and children cast out, disappeared from their communities and forced to make a life in the shadows of society.
    — Tembe Denton-Hurst, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of cast out
Verb
  • Large press group turned out to cover my trip to Turmusayya today to meet Americans living there.
    — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Johnson doesn’t look like Monroe — and that turned out to be the point.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of turned out
Verb
  • The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off the runway at Miami International Airport were all inside a van used to get to planes to clean them, authorities said.
    — David Fischer, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off the runway at Miami International Airport were all inside a van used to shuttle cleaning crews to planes, authorities said.
    — David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of ran off

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