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banish

[ban-ish] / ˈbæn ɪʃ /


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The singer, who looked aghast when he was attacked by Romesh during the endgame, was then the only one to choose to banish again when it came to the final three.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

If a professor in the English department misbehaves, they do not banish all English professors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

“No one was nearer to Henry than myself. Will you banish me as well?”

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

"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

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

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

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

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 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

The 29-year-old will be hoping the class of 2026 has more faith in online influencers than last year, when his Beta Squadmate Niko Omilana was the first player banished from the castle.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Just like Ms. Fender had banished me to the back of the trumpet section and let Callum still have his solo.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

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

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

For the foreseeable future, banishing zero from the universe with string theory is a philosophical idea rather than a scientific one.

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


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