banish

Following the defeat, the Egyptian Football Association asked Fifa to banish from the tournament the French referee Francois Letexier and the team of officials who were in charge, alleging bias in favour of Argentina.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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

But tonight they did nothing to banish the sad things she'd seen.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

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 World Cup win at least banishes one of Egypt's ghosts.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Daddy forces them to hand him their company and banishes Jimmy to the Latitude mailroom.

From Salon ● May 29, 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

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

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

Orpheus tries to rescue his love, but his faith in her is tested on their return to the top — if he turns back to see if she’s there, she’ll be banished to Hadestown forever.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

Any suggestion the 12 months of white-ball success leading to the Under-19 World Cup final knock were some sort of fluke for Sooryavanshi has been banished at this year's Indian Premier League.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

So she had banished “fat” from her vocabulary.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

"He might struggle with banishing people as well as any potential heat he might receive," she says.

From BBC ● May 14, 2025

The price of peace had been high: expelling himself from the gang, proclaiming himself a traitor, banishing his beloved pet.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli