OUSTED Synonyms: 94 Similar and Opposite Words

ousted

verb

past tense of oust

as in dismissed

to drive or force out she was ousted from her job after it was proven she'd been pilfering company supplies

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as in deposed

to remove from a position of prominence or power (as a throne) the people finally rose up and ousted the corrupt dictator

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as in evicted

to end the occupancy or possession of the squatters were forcibly ousted from the abandoned building

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Recent Examples of ousted In Europe, Thun and Hearts each was ousted in July in Champions League qualifying rounds though will start in the third-tier Conference League next month. — ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026 Then Carl Icahn ran a proxy contest in the middle of all this that ousted the chairman in 2023 and led to CEO Francis deSouza resigning shortly after. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026 They were ousted in the NLCS by the Los Angeles Dodgers, who held them to a total of four runs over a four-game sweep. — Johnny Flores Jr, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026 Nevertheless, the other openers on the North American leg of the Loop Tour — Lukas Graham and Aaron Rowe — dropped out in protest of the way Macklemore was ousted. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026 In a sign of shifting attitudes in Japan, voters in the southern island of Okinawa — home to 70% of the US military presence in the country — recently ousted a governor who opposed Tokyo’s militarization. — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026 In the general election, Villaraigosa ousted Hahn in a landslide. — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026 In late May, CBS ousted correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega along with several of the show’s top producers, including executive producer Tanya Simon. — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026 The outreach is part of an attempt to rebuild regional ties that deteriorated after Min Aung Hlaing ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government in February 2021 while serving as army chief. — Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026

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In California, a federal judge this month dismissed the administration’s challenge to school sports policies allowing transgender athletes to compete on teams matching their gender identity.

— Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Netanyahu dismissed the allegations, and is suing Levi and several other Israelis who have made similar charges.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

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The Turkish government was deposed in a military coup in 1980, and in the aftermath, the CHP (along with every other party) was banned from politics.

— Nick TaborAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Sep. 2026
Paxton wasn't a defendant in the suit, but as the company's former attorney, he was deposed in 2019 and in 2022.

— Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of deposed

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Instead there is a young woman with a dismissive smile, and the authority of someone who belongs to the house because she cannot be evicted from its history.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
When the government expanded the park in the late 1990s and early 2000s, hundreds of villagers—including Mgesi's family—were forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands.

— Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of evicted

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This deprived the state treasurer of huge assets that otherwise could have been invested to generate billions of dollars in revenue.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
Declining natural gas exports have deprived Bolivia of dollars needed to import gasoline and diesel, contributing to chronic fuel shortages since 2023 that have persisted under Paz.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026

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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

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His daughter's husband, who drank heavily, toppled off his boat and drowned.

— Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 20 Sep. 2026
Zak’s performance on Friday was quite nice for Wauconda, which toppled previously unbeaten Grayslake North 48-14 in a Northern Lake County Conference game.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2026

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