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Recent Examples of ouster Neither Johnson nor Duffey responded Sunday to requests for comment about the messages or Johnson’s ouster over the weekend. Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 17 May 2026 Senators have held on in elections amid their states' shifting political tides in the past, but usually their luck eventually runs out — as evidenced by the ouster of former Democratic Sens. Garrett Downs, CNBC, 15 May 2026 In retrospect, Summers’s ouster doesn’t look like the product of feminist hysteria; rather, his colleagues may have seen him as an embarrassing liability and seized on the opportunity to offload him. Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026 What is as clear as his ouster is the winner’s edit that Aubry is getting. Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for ouster
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Noun
  • But afterward, the Cavs weren’t retroactively clamoring for an ejection.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 16 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 league constitution is a contract between teams, owners and the league that details league authority over teams, including with respect to ownership, relocation, discipline and territorial rights.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 19 May 2026
  • Leaders will also meet in executive session to address the lawsuit and potential relocation plans for city staff.
    Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • But Southampton’s expulsion following the spying scandal has handed Middlesbrough an extraordinary reprieve — and the betting market has reacted in their favour.
    Dean Jones, New York Times, 23 May 2026
  • During the campaign, Kast regularly threatened the 336,000 migrants living illegally in Chile, according to official estimates, with expulsion.
    John Bartlett, NPR, 23 May 2026
Noun
  • Many see Jordan as a way station to permanent resettlement in Canada, the United States, or Europe, where the economic opportunities are better.
    Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • According to statistics cited in a recent federal appeals court ruling, more than 128,000 individuals had been conditionally approved for refugee status when the resettlement program was halted.
    Dan Barry, New York Times, 12 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
  • Both are awaiting extradition to Atlanta, the APD said.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
  • Her father was arrested in Florida and is awaiting extradition to Los Angeles County.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • And maybe hold a parallel history of travel and displacement in some odd way?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • Moderated by IndieWire’s Anne Thompson, the panel explored how Luna channelled his own experiences with grief into an adaptation of Brenda Navarro’s novel about family separation and emotional displacement.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • There’s nothing inherently antisemitic about protesting over the dispossession of Palestinians, and the attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers, which appear to be sanctioned by the Israeli government.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
  • Martel explores the killing not as an isolated event in her country’s recent past but as part of a long history of dispossession.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026

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“Ouster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ouster. Accessed 24 May. 2026.

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