banishment
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The opprobrium that ensued in the course of a shamelessly one-sided trial shredded their reputations, cost them their jobs and led to an incurable banishment from public life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Let’s say you were ordered deported and you now faced banishment from your country.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2026
“As Alan Carr says, the faithful have got to up the nerve at the banishment table and behave less like pussycats and more like rottweilers,” said TV reporter Siobhan Synnot.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025
It may not have been felonious enough to demand civil punishment, but it certainly required banishment from the game and from any of its rewards.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2025
In the rear of the skiff sat Edwin, a quiet, potbellied Tlingit elder who had helped arrange Cole’s banishment.
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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