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[ban-ish] / ˈbæn ɪʃ /


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But the real frustration will come from the fact Spurs had the opportunity to banish all relegation fears here and were simply not good enough to take advantage.

From BBC May 19, 2026

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

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

Moments later Cronin was grabbing the kid’s shirt and leading him to the baseline, where he ordered an assistant coach to remove him from the court area and banish him to the locker room.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 2026

But on Tuesday, Shiffrin finally has a chance to banish that dread—with some help from a newly crowned Olympic champion.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 2026

All they had to do was banish zero.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

This is the moment each year in which I go wild with asparagus, kale, peas, dill — anything that banishes the blasé gray of a New York winter.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2023

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

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Now she has been banished along with fruit and vegetable sellers to a vacant lot with lower foot traffic, her turnover roughly halving as a result.

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

Too quiet, many locals say, because off-road vehicles and beach camping have been temporarily banished from San Luis Obispo County’s Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area since April 14.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2026

He also appeared in the 2025 series of The Celebrity Traitors - but was the first faithful to be banished at the roundtable.

From BBC Mar. 25, 2026

I’m shocked that Season 2’s Kate Chastain is the only person who’s begged to be banished.

From Salon Feb. 28, 2026

She took a breath, banished the tremble from her voice, and spoke: “I am Sierra Santiago, shadowshaper.”

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

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

This could be seen as a halfway house, whereby the independent disciplinary commission dodges the nuclear option of banishing Southampton from the play-offs but still applies a sporting sanction.

From BBC May 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

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

She has performed a kind of emergency triage, banishing the infected to save the well.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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