ouster

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Recent Examples of ouster Houston has relented, however, following the council’s ouster of Commissioner Omar Farmer, an outspoken police critic, and a cooling-off of tensions between Houston and Commissioner Ricardo Garcia-Acosta, the current chair of the watchdog body. Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 24 June 2026 And he was so reviled by the Hollywood establishment that none other than Frank Sinatra hand-delivered a letter calling for his ouster. Marlow Stern, Variety, 24 June 2026 Mnangagwa has been in power since 2017, when the military backed the ouster of his mentor and Zimbabwe's longtime ruler, Robert Mugabe, who died in 2019. ABC News, 24 June 2026 The result in November 2022 was Chapek’s ouster from the company and Iger’s return as CEO. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for ouster
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Noun
  • Instead, his locker was cleared out by the time reporters entered the Yankees’ clubhouse, leaving Boone to answer for the ejection.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
  • The Mercury and the Fever also played on Monday night, a game during which there were six technical fouls called and one ejection.
    CBS News, CBS News, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Rodríguez said emergency economic measures will include relief funds for victims and temporary waivers on documentation and property registration fees to facilitate housing relocation.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
  • In reality, only those padded with cash who can push through the lengthy relocation process will have a shot at living in New Zealand.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • Accra’s 1969 migrant expulsion and Uganda’s mass ban three years later both triggered capital flight and supply chain chaos.
    Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
  • The poems explore themes of loss, identity, artmaking and the natural world, as well as the 1885 expulsion of Chinese immigrants from Eureka, California.
    Suzanne Van Atten, AJC.com, 21 June 2026
Noun
  • Alongside the nonprofit’s own staff, an integral part of RefugeeOne’s resettlement efforts hinges on community members’ help.
    Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
  • Now disarmed, the dissidents will enter a temporary resettlement zone where the government intends to facilitate their gradual reintegration into civilian life.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Sore from the torment of her family’s banishment, Espinoza feels the pulse of current events.
    Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Shaw, who was arrested on Tuesday by the Boise Police Department while in the city, is in the Ada County Jail awaiting extradition to Payette County, where she will be arraigned on two counts of first-degree murder.
    Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 1 July 2026
  • The notice is a request to police forces around the world to arrest a suspect, pending extradition.
    Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Yale, a key champion of the quantum effort and an economic anchor in New Haven, has often found itself at the center of local discussions around displacement, gentrification and inequity.
    P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2026
  • An image may resonate with deeper meanings (that’s what great directors can bring about), but the compression and displacement that make the simile devastating on the page have no cinematic equivalent.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 21 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 6 Jul. 2026.

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