ostracisms

plural of ostracism

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Noun
  • Of those requests, the agency granted 170,084 exclusions and denied 59,134, with 44,325 exclusion requests rejected or withdrawn during the process.
    Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Today, Venezuela has the largest population of exiles in the Americas and the second largest in the world after Syria — despite not being in a civil war — with more than 8 million people living abroad.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Six years later, he was assigned to be a pastor at a church in Bay Ridge, where the pews, once occupied by Norwegian immigrants, were filling up with Arab Christians, many of them Palestinian exiles.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This struggle for resources often led to destabilization, conflict and displacements.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Almost two-thirds of the new displacements were reported outside Port-au-Prince, especially in Haiti's central region.
    NPR, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Ostracisms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ostracisms. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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