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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ouster
Noun
  • The frustration spilled onto the court with 27 seconds before the break when the altercation led to Suggs' ejection.
    CBS News, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Chase was suspended by the NFL after the spitting incident, which ultimately led to Ramsey’s ejection in the Steelers-Bengals matchup in Week 11.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • That’s made the team’s preparation for the tournament difficult, including a last-minute training base relocation from Tucson, Arizona, to Tijuana.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 16 June 2026
  • Global Citizen Solutions’ Global Intelligence Unit (GIU) has assessed each destination through the lens of relocation, incorporating passport mobility rights as a core dimension of livability.
    Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Skirting standards results in expulsion from the AMA and participation in their preferred insurance program, the statement said.
    Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Police located the firearm, resulting in the student's expulsion.
    DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
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
  • In 2015, Dong and his family fled to Thailand, where the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees recognized them as refugees and they were approved for resettlement in Canada.
    Stella Kim, NBC news, 27 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
  • But how Andrew’s de facto banishment would affect his daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, wasn’t known.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Morgan Geyser, 23, is being held in the Waukesha County Jail following her extradition from Illinois last week, according to FOX 11.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Geyser did not fight her extradition to Wisconsin in a Chicago court appearance Tuesday.
    CBS News, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, violence drove displacements to record levels following the armed clashes in Cite Soleil in March and again in May.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 June 2026
  • And that’s a very critical thing for the driver to feel the displacement of the suspension, the tire moving under the rim.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • Jewish trauma does not erase Palestinian dispossession and ethnic cleansing.
    Nicole Erin Morse, Baltimore Sun, 9 June 2026
  • Weil suggests that the peoples of America melded (or failed to meld) within a cauldron of suffering, their collective history a saga of bondage and dispossession.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 June 2026

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“Ouster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ouster. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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