ouster

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Recent Examples of ouster The Oxford Union debating society announced Tuesday the ouster of President-elect George Abaraonye after reported comments celebrating the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 22 Oct. 2025 So Gonzales needs to spark a Florida offense predicated on a five-star quarterback, two four-star freshman receivers and a running back who just rushed for 150 yards in Napier’s ouster. Noah White, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025 Joe Hinrichs’ abrupt ouster from CSX followed informal outreach earlier this year from his counterpart at Union Pacific about potentially merging the two railroads, outreach that Hinrichs failed to pursue, the people said. Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2025 But unlike in years past, that no longer means an ouster from this organization. Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ouster
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Noun
  • The veteran forward had just taken an elbow to the head from the Anaheim Ducks’ Leo Carlsson, a hit that resulted in Carlsson’s ejection from the game.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Nov. 2025
  • There could be an ejection at Kauffman Stadium next week.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Bill Belichick was head coach of those 1995 Browns, a team that entered that season with high expectations (Sports Illustrated picked them to go to the Super Bowl) but finished a disappointing 5-11 as relocation news became a massive distraction for the team.
    Jim Reineking, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • If approved, security officials will review whether the alternative site meets federal standards before any relocation occurs.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
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
  • Neither Father Burke or Sister Irene realize it at the end of the movie, but Valak evades banishment by possessing Frenchie.
    Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The autocratic czarist regime ruled with an iron hand and suppressed opposition through censorship, banishment, and executions.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 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
  • There are two questions Gazans have usually asked each other since the start of this campaign of unrelenting and systematic destruction, starvation, displacement and mass killing.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Washington examines varying experiences of displacement, writing with tenderness about the tolls of emigration and exile, both cultural and familial.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • That Haudenosaunee dispossession made the Erie Canal possible.
    Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025

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