banish

Mr. Flanagan’s placing “Carrie” in today’s youth culture makes us pine for the days when Betty Buckley could simply banish Nancy Allen from the school dance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

But in Japan and South Korea he was able to rekindle flashes of brilliance, scoring eight times including twice in the final against Germany to banish the painful memories of Paris.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

We should banish it, because I’ve learned the hard way that it’s too abstract.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Staring at the prospect of letting another seemingly insurmountable lead slip, Arsenal are desperate to banish those demons, having grappled with the tag over the past two decades.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

He couldn’t banish her heart-wrenching music from his mind, even when he burned his mother’s list of eligible maidens, even when he read a book long into the night, even when he finally fell asleep.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

"Anyone who banishes Stolpersteine and memorial sites commemorating Jewish life from public spaces to the cemetery is prioritising death over life and rendering Jewish people invisible once again," she told Bild.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Mary appears to have a form of treatment-resistant schizophrenia, until chemotherapy, following a diagnosis of lymphoma, banishes her psychiatric symptoms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

It banishes darkness, conveys telecommunications signals between continents and makes visible the invisible, from faraway galaxies to the smallest bacterium.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

But Rama soon hears that his subjects are gossiping about Sita’s purity and banishes her to the forest once more — this time alone, while pregnant.

From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2023

And then something happens that banishes even that mystery from my head.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Nor should computers be banished from the business of deciding what things cost.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

When it came to the endgame, Little Mix singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock was swiftly banished after Kenny voted to remove her.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

After they were banished early on, a theory spread on social media that they were voted out because the other celebrities didn't know them that well.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

By the time national-team stars such as Gianluigi Buffon returned to Juve, the club had been banished to the second tier and stripped of two league titles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Whether he is banished for treason or bond breakage, I care not. I just want him gone. Who among us could ever trust him again?” shouted a woman.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

Rickover likened himself to Attila the Hun and had young officers conduct job interviews on chairs with specially shortened front legs, banishing them to a closet if they disappointed him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

South Korea has an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment -- the last prisoners were executed in 1997 -- with a death sentence effectively banishing Yoon to life behind bars.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

In case you’ve forgotten where “Stranger Things” left us, Vecna revealed that Eleven accidentally created him by banishing him to the Upside Down.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025

But the proposed move has largely been perceived as banishing the journalist to a TV backwater where viewers and advertisers dollars are scant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025

Franklin’s endorsement of the petition from the Pennsylvania Abolition Society effectively assured that the preferred Madisonian strategy—calmly receiving these requests, then banishing them to the congressional version of oblivion—was not going to work.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis