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Recent Examples of ouster
Most Western sanctions on Syria were lifted after a new leadership took power following the ouster of former President Bashar Assad in December 2024.
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Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 7 Feb. 2026
Most of the crippling Western sanctions on Syria were lifted after a new leadership took power following the ouster of former President Bashar Assad in December 2024, opening the way for investments to flow into the country.
—Ghaith Alsayed, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
The putative intelligence chief was apparently irrelevant in the administration’s ouster of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
Trump has accused the nation's president, Gustavo Petro, of being in league with the cartels, and suggested in the wake of Nicolás Maduro's ouster in Venezuela that the Colombia leader who's been a vocal critic of his administration could be next.
—Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
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Boston Herald Wire Services, Boston Herald, 7 Feb. 2026
Most of the crippling Western sanctions on Syria were lifted after a new leadership took power following the ouster of former President Bashar Assad in December 2024, opening the way for investments to flow into the country.
—Ghaith Alsayed, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
The putative intelligence chief was apparently irrelevant in the administration’s ouster of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
Trump has accused the nation's president, Gustavo Petro, of being in league with the cartels, and suggested in the wake of Nicolás Maduro's ouster in Venezuela that the Colombia leader who's been a vocal critic of his administration could be next.
—Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ouster
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In more mature planetary nebulae — or even in preplanetary nebulae that are closer to the end of their preplanetary stage (with hotter stars powering them) — the ejection process has been muddied by a thousand years or more of earlier ejecta being overtaken by faster-moving, more recent ejecta.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Feb. 2026
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Because the pre-planetary stage lasts only a few thousand years, the Egg Nebula provides scientists a chance to watch the ejection process practically in real time.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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Achillo Pinto touted the preservation of 50 jobs as part of the deal, while the remaining redundancies were supported in exiting the company with incentives, outplacement services, and relocation within the Como district.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Since 1974, when the United States began opening its economy more aggressively to global trade, the Trade Adjustment Assistance program has helped more than 5 million people with retraining, wage insurance, and relocation grants, at a cost in recent years of roughly half a billion dollars annually.—
Josh Tyrangiel,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
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Johnson said before the demonstrations that students who participate in the protests will be marked absent from class, but would not be disciplined, such as with suspensions or expulsions.—
Jessica Seaman,
Denver Post,
30 Jan. 2026
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On the first offense, a violator would be subject to immediate expulsion from the legislative chamber for the remainder of the day, a fine of not less than $500 but not exceeding $1,000, and referral to the chamber’s ethics committee.—
Barbara Hoberock,
Oklahoma Voice,
29 Jan. 2026
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Time and again, Minnesota has stepped forward when the country needed a North Star, a leader in interstate collaboration, in health care, in labor rights, in education, in refugee resettlement, and in the long, unfinished work of racial justice.—
Marilyn Carlson Nelson,
New York Daily News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Nor is such resettlement likely to be economically feasible or sustainable for the descendants of the Chagossians to have a viable independent existence there.—
Sandeep Gopalan,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Feb. 2026
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After eight episodes, six banishments (both failed and successful), and one controversial blue sweater, Colton Underwood was officially murdered on The Traitors, thus ending the time of one of Season 4’s most controversial contestants.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
6 Feb. 2026
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By not telling Candiace that Colton had been saying her name the previous night, Rob stood back and let Candiace dig her own grave with Colton's murder, resulting in her immediate banishment at the roundtable.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Feb. 2026
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Woods has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in Shareef's death, and is awaiting extradition back to Illinois, according to the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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An Indiana man was arrested this week in connection with the fatal shooting and is being held after waiving extradition at a court appearance.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
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Connecticut’s own economic development director has publicly expressed concern about the acceleration of job displacement that AI will bring.—
Kevin J. Conlan,
Hartford Courant,
9 Feb. 2026
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The song is widely seen as a protest against the displacement of communities and the privatization of natural resources – issues that younger generations on the island feel are also happening in Puerto Rico.—
Rocio Munoz,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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These forms did not emerge in isolation, but out of daily practices of survival and defiance shaped by colonial domination, racial hierarchies, and economic dispossession.—
Dr. Carlos A Torre,
Hartford Courant,
7 Feb. 2026
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In Tulsa, dispossession unfolded not as a single event, but instead through the denial of insurance claims, the exclusion from public programs, the removal of homes through urban renewal, and decades of political pressure not to speak.—
Caleb Gayle,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Ouster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ouster. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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