ouster

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Recent Examples of ouster Last week, the US government indicted 94-year-old former Cuban President Raúl Castro, in a move that echoes steps taken ahead of the ouster of Venezuela’s former President Nicolas Maduro. Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 3 June 2026 Former Navy Secretary John Phelan — ostensibly fired due to insufficient progress on a new US shipbuilding plan — circulated a draft shipbuilding proposal before his ouster, reviewed by Semafor, that appears largely identical to the official version his successor released. Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 3 June 2026 With Pelley's ouster, only correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim remain. David Folkenflik, NPR, 3 June 2026 Gannon Ken Van Dyke, the Army sergeant charged with insider trading on the Maduro ouster, has pleaded not guilty. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 28 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for ouster
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Noun
  • In the YouTube video, Edwards shared commentary on each of the six games leading up to Minnesota’s playoff exit, including his opinion on the Spurs without Victor Wembanyama and the discussion around the Frenchman potentially being suspended after his ejection for elbowing Naz Reid.
    Zach Powell, New York Times, 23 May 2026
  • Twins manager Derek Shelton came out to argue and was ejected by Baker, his third ejection this season.
    CBS News, CBS News, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • The Broncos, which have an agreement to cover Denver Water’s relocation costs, agreed to provide most of the acreage necessary to replace the parts of its campus that the utility will move to the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood, on a property near East 40th Avenue and Clayton Street.
    Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 9 June 2026
  • Rich relocation packages can help persuade recruits to move.
    Bloomberg, Oc Register, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • The young Brooks’s disciplinary problems began with fights in primary school and culminated in his expulsion from college for threatening a policeman with a firearm.
    Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • The Board of Education approves the Orange County Depart of Education’s annual budget, also hearing appeals for expulsions, charter school applications and inter-district transfers.
    Victoria Le, Oc Register, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • Local authorities are providing relief, medical care and resettlement assistance to affected residents, the news report said.
    Grant Peck, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
  • Lê Shackelford said Columbus Park has historical ties to Vietnamese refugee resettlement after the war and already includes Asian businesses such as Vietnam Café, Pho Lan, Tian Tea House and Café Cà Phê.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • The appeals court ruled in September 2025 that Mid Vermont Christian must be allowed to participate in state athletics, after two years of banishment had passed.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Like there was a demon in his lungs, fighting the last bit of banishment.
    Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Pierce, 58, waived his right to an extradition hearing, and was transferred back to West Virginia on Thursday, June 4.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
  • Salinas was transported to the Porter County Jail, where he is being held pending extradition proceedings to Illinois.
    Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2026
Noun
  • For decades, residents have watched promises of revitalization arrive alongside fears of displacement and uneven benefit.
    Andre Dowell, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026
  • At the Canadian Pavilion, Abbas Akhavan created a sensorial environment centered on fragility, displacement, breath, and survival.
    Thomas Rom, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • This definition of Black maternal dispossession simply aims to examine the many ways that Black motherhood is obscured and rendered an archival impossibility for research in my attempt to define it.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
  • The novel emphasizes that these conditions of privation and dispossession are themselves a vicious inheritance, that bloodshed and conquest have long characterized the story of this land.
    Rachel Vorona Cote, Vulture, 2 June 2026

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

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