1
as in to exile
to force to leave a country
in the old days, criminals were sometimes banished to distant lands
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2
as in to out
to drive or force out
permanently banished the troublemakers from the youth recreational center
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Recent Examples of banish
And Leland was banished forever to a naughty mystical closet at the silent retreat upstate.
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Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 16 July 2025
With billions of dollars at his disposal and tech masterminds at his service, Luthor sets out to banish Superman from Earth forever.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 July 2025
Later during the episode, Britney was also banished following the final roundtable.
—David Wysong, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
That doesn’t mean Disney and Pixar are waving the white flag of surrender and banishing original storytelling to the hinterlands.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
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Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 16 July 2025
With billions of dollars at his disposal and tech masterminds at his service, Luthor sets out to banish Superman from Earth forever.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 July 2025
Later during the episode, Britney was also banished following the final roundtable.
—David Wysong, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
That doesn’t mean Disney and Pixar are waving the white flag of surrender and banishing original storytelling to the hinterlands.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for banish
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The second Renko novel, Polar Star (1989), in which the investigator is exiled to a Soviet factory ship in the Arctic, is my favorite of the whole series.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
16 July 2025
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They are silenced, punished, exiled – for daring to write.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
16 July 2025
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Among the line-up for this year’s speakers is also director-producer duo Ben Wheatley and Andy Starke (Kill List, Bulk, Sightseers) as well as Andrea Arnold, best known for her 2024 Cannes outing Bird.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
18 July 2025
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In March, 2008, the Post published a front-page story on Eliot Spitzer, then the governor of New York, who—after cracking down on prostitution rings while serving as the state’s attorney general, from 1999 to 2006—was outed as having patronized an escort service.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
Verb
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The drive to save lives cannot be relegated to historical oddity.—
David Miliband,
Time,
21 July 2025
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Hamilton, mostly relegated to low-leverage situations after some early-season struggles, had the Yankees down, 2-0, before recording an out, as Matt Olson and Ronald Acuña Jr. followed Jurickson Profar’s leadoff single with RBI doubles.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
19 July 2025
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The felony charges were dismissed with prejudice, meaning they can't be refiled.—
Quinlan Bentley,
The Courier-Journal,
25 July 2025
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In previous cycles, price booms were often dismissed as driven by hype, memes, and momentum.—
Becca Bratcher,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Detained in Texas, deported to El Salvador Perozo, who has five children, said he was beaten daily for a week at CECOT and a gun was fired near his left ear during a riot 15 days after his imprisonment.—
Gustavo Ocando Alex,
Miami Herald,
1 Aug. 2025
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The terminations are part of a broad effort by the Republican administration to deport immigrants en masse, by going after people who are in the country illegally but also by removing protections that have allowed people to live and work in the U.S. on a temporary basis.—
Janie Har,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Aug. 2025
Verb
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In March, he was ejected in Phoenix after a dust-up with Durant.—
Doug Haller,
New York Times,
24 July 2025
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The seventh inning, meanwhile, saw Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake get ejected.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
24 July 2025
Verb
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The solution: evict those states that are not true believers.—
STACIE E. GODDARD,
Foreign Affairs,
28 July 2025
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This left just Amy and Will, one of whom was evicted after a unanimous vote.—
Dina Kaur,
AZCentral.com,
28 July 2025
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Again, don’t run: Bears will chase you, just like a dog would.—
Mike Stunson
July 14,
Kansas City Star,
14 July 2025
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And that’s what all three of these companies are chasing: trust, at scale.—
Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega,
semafor.com,
14 July 2025
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“Banish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banish. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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