OUSTER Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

ouster

noun

Definition of ouster

as in ejection

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Recent Examples of ouster Macron, who arrived in Damascus last night, is the first major Western leader to visit the country since Bashar al-Assad’s ouster in 2024. — Peter Weber, TheWeek, 7 July 2026 The question arose following the ouster from the September primary ballot of Republican Anne Manning Martin by the state Ballot Law Commission. — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 2 July 2026 Oddsmakers are putting plenty of faith in the Thunder using their unexpected ouster by the Spurs in the WCF as motivation, and in San Antonio using its own Finals disappointment to fuel another run at the Larry O’Brien Trophy. — Juan Carlos Blanco, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 The film, budgeted at $5 million according to Page Six, marks Majors’ return to the screen after a domestic violence incident swiftly led to his ouster from Hollywood and he was unceremoniously dropped from multiple major projects just as his profile was hitting a new peak. — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for ouster

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Noun

The Swiss played a good chunk of the match with 10 men after review changed a yellow card on an Argentine player into a second yellow card (and an ejection) for one of their own.

— Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 13 July 2026
Giants manager Tony Vitello came out to argue the call and was ejected by plate umpire Lance Barksdale, the second ejection this season for the first-year skipper.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026

Definition of ejection

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He’s been dealt the difficult hand of overseeing a roster overhaul and the team’s temporary relocation to West Sacramento expected to run through next season, with his pitching staff struggling to be effective in the band-box of Sutter Health Park.

— Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
DIYers who have experience with rewiring switches, moving light fixtures, or any other basic electrical work around the home will likely be okay to handle a thermostat relocation.

— Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 15 July 2026

Definition of relocation

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National research links suspension and expulsion to lower academic achievement, a higher risk of contact with the criminal justice system, isolation, poor health and lower wages, the report said.

— Bryant Furlow, ProPublica, 13 July 2026
Refusal to participate or pass these exams routinely results in expulsion, arrest, or the institution’s closure.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026

Definition of expulsion

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Dajani has also worked on boards for a refugee resettlement organization and the Association of Arab American studies and served on scholarship committees at the Mosque of Orland Park.

— Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 26 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

Definition of resettlement

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

Definition of banishment

Noun

Defense lawyer Gerri Wiebe said Nygard chose not to contest the Quebec charges before his pending extradition to the United States.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 July 2026
Such provisional arrest requests are often granted as a matter of course; by treaty, the country asking for extradition has 60 days to present more detailed evidence after the initial arrest is made.

— Tim Golden, ProPublica, 13 July 2026

Definition of extradition

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Officials caution that not everyone reported missing is necessarily trapped beneath the rubble because communications failures, mass displacement and transportation disruptions have complicated efforts to reunite families.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 4 July 2026
But any displacement by immigrants is limited and often dwarfed, as Card's research found, by job increases from new or expanding businesses that immigrants generate.

— Robert Hormats, Time, 4 July 2026

Definition of displacement

Noun

That pattern has held since the Revolutionary War, from the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II to today’s active-duty ranks, even as Native nations endured broken treaties, dispossession and federal violence at the hands of the government.

— Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation, 9 July 2026
Frequently working with his partner Angela Ricci Lucchi, who died in 2018, Gianikian produced experimental films that considered forms of dispossession and the lingering pain that often accompanies it.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 July 2026

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