ouster

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Recent Examples of ouster There are also reports that armed groups are already working to suppress any support for Maduro's ouster. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 7 Jan. 2026 In the wake of his ouster, Maduro's vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, was sworn in as interim leader of Venezuela on Monday. Mike Pappano, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2026 Venezuela’s government launched a far-reaching crackdown after Maduro’s ouster, detaining journalists and civilians and sending armed gangs to the streets. María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2026 People in La Carlota in Caracas, Venezuela, gathered basic necessities like water in the days after Nicolás Maduro's ouster. Nbc News, NBC news, 6 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ouster
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Noun
  • Instead, his biggest critic after the ejection was his mother, Ann Kerr, who lives in Southern California and made the short trip to Inglewood.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Izzo was asked about Davis’ ejection after the game.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Greece now offers a new five-year golden visa for foreign investors, creating another enticing relocation option for Americans interested in moving abroad.
    Brittany Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Google cofounder Larry Page has quietly—or loudly—joined the billionaire exodus from California, shifting businesses east and dropping about $173 million on two ultra-luxury waterfront mansions in Miami’s Coconut Grove in a move that looks strikingly similar to Jeff Bezos’ relocation playbook.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Israel’s first occupation of Gaza was characterized by war crimes, massacres, and expulsions.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Robert Eggers' first feature tells a folk horror tale about a devout family — led by father William (Ralph Ineson) and his wife, Katherine (Kate Dickie) — living on an isolated farm in 1630s New England after their expulsion from Puritan society.
    Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Others have shuttered their services, changing the landscape of the refugee resettlement process.
    NPR, NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
  • These include executive orders and regulatory changes to enforce immigration laws more strictly, pause or restrict refugee resettlement, reinstate rapid-expulsion policies like Title 42, expedite deportations, and increase border barrier construction.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, have remained in the Windsor dynasty's good graces following Andrew's banishment.
    Hannah Malach, InStyle, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Its collapse, in 1946, led to his execution and his family’s banishment to Tehran, where Googoosh was born, in 1950.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • In some instances, an extradition process can last years, especially when the person targeted for extradition can credibly argue they are being sought more for political or social reasons than legal ones.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The extradition was expected after Colombia’s supreme court last month gave its blessing.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The violence and chaos are driving hunger and displacement as tens of thousands flee their homes, posing risks not only to the country but to regional security.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2026
  • For all three, conquest and displacement of native peoples would be a major theme, but larger-scale and more violent in the United States than that in Canada or Brazil.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • And so, put simply, the Park Service is not the villain of the story of dispossession.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Moved by Arthur’s story of dispossession, Dale wrote out a new will, which would see his shares of Indian Head Hills returned to Arthur and Chutto.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Ouster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ouster. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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