banish
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We should banish it, because I’ve learned the hard way that it’s too abstract.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
And banish this phrase—“You’re away,” the needless etiquette of having the player farthest from the hole hit first after tee shots and other shots approaching the green.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
She was recalled for the semi-final against France and scored twice - including another remarkable solo try - to banish any doubts over her form before the final.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
He also claims that the prince fears that his brother, the future king, "could remove all the Sussexes' titles and effectively banish him from Britain".
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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
When Daemon's conduct becomes intolerable, Viserys disinherits and banishes him.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
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
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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
India banished the ghosts of 2023 by emphatically beating New Zealand by 96 runs in Ahmedabad to defend their T20 World Cup title.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
He was not sure whether he was being banished.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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
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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