as in to eject
to force (someone) to leave a place
His landlord has threatened to evict him if he doesn't pay the rent soon. They were evicted from their apartment.
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Recent Examples of evict
Magistrate Katrina Watson gave the landlord of Queen City Quarter the right to evict Taste Cheesesteak Bar on Tuesday.
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Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2026
They had even been evicted from their home, and counted coins to take the subway.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
Villagers could be forcibly evicted from their land, which was then divided into oil blocks and sold off to petroleum companies.
—Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
The leader of Black Lives Matter OKC was being evicted from a rental house in northeast Oklahoma City in October 2022.
—Brianna Bailey, The Frontier, 24 Mar. 2026
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Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2026
They had even been evicted from their home, and counted coins to take the subway.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
Villagers could be forcibly evicted from their land, which was then divided into oil blocks and sold off to petroleum companies.
—Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
The leader of Black Lives Matter OKC was being evicted from a rental house in northeast Oklahoma City in October 2022.
—Brianna Bailey, The Frontier, 24 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evict
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She was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Tremblay, her daughter said, was ejected from the plane upon impact and was thrown more than 300 feet — nearly the length of a football field — before slamming and skidding onto the tarmac.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Despite being on the city’s radar since 2022, San Jose officials failed to banish the existing building’s blight.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Finish last in the Social Darwinism of a European football league, and you’re banished to a lower division of the game.—
Andrés Martinez,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
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Moscow was expelled from the group, and the G8 became the G7.—
Leonie Kidd,
CNBC,
29 Mar. 2026
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House Republicans are pushing to expel Cherfilus-McCormick from Congress because of the allegations, and the findings by the Ethics Committee could bolster that effort.—
Caitlin Yilek,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Authorities had since dismissed her lawyers’ requests to send her to a hospital for urgent treatment.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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There is a long history of women's pain being dismissed by doctors, incorrectly categorized as period pain or rooted in psychological distress.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Yet few have been deported, even as the White House pushes for ever more immigrant expulsions.—
Molly A. Wallace,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
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All of his family except Harris and two of his sisters was deported to the Nazis’ Treblinka extermination camp and ultimately murdered.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2026
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As Morocco’s indigenous inhabitants, El Hammoumy continued, the Berbers are like other native peoples around the world who have been systematically dispossessed of their lands and heritage for centuries.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Mar. 2026
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The Netherlands international was dispossessed seven times — the most of any player in a Premier League game this season.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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Once used by Iran's monarchy to exile political prisoners, this rock is deceptively fertile on the ground.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
25 Mar. 2026
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In the Sixties in Greece, under military rule, the music of Mikis Theodorakis was prohibited by decree, its composer imprisoned and exiled.—
Christina Hioureas,
Rolling Stone,
22 Mar. 2026
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This is apparently so intolerable to the American public of the 1950s that he is chased out of a radio station after airing his views, whiskey bottle in hand.—
Alice Kaplan,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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The Rockies want to run the bases like kids chasing an ice cream truck.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Evict.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evict. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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