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[ban-ish] / ˈbæn ɪʃ /


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The conclusion was to banish Hesmondhalgh, who, in her parting words, said it had been an "immense experience".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

More than that though, he vowed to banish factionalism from the party for good.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

He poked fun at those who fled the city, at the power of opium to banish pain, and at the cruelty and indifference of those outside the city.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

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

This major win, surely, banishes such a notion.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024

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

Pierre plays the cruel Duke Frederick, who banishes his brother, among others, to the Forest of Arden in this tale of camouflage, love and self discovery.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022

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

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

He has been banished for five years, but it should’ve been lifetime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

It was a note of caution that showed questions about the Games' future had not been banished as the 2026 Games closed on Sunday evening.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Whatever engine droning and snoozing you might remember from earlier CVT systems has been banished to the Phantom Zone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

“THEN I DON’T,” he thundered again, “for since they’ve been banished, we’ve never agreed on anything—and we never will.”

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

Five years later, Madison Square Garden was planted atop it, banishing sunlight and driving commuters into a subterranean maze of passageways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 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

The singer said she suspects she’ll be battling that toxic perfectionism for the rest of her life, but she’s gotten better at banishing it to the backseat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

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

I was more upset about the bike than I was about Erma banishing us.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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