banish
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But in Japan and South Korea he was able to rekindle flashes of brilliance, scoring eight times including twice in the final against Germany to banish the painful memories of Paris.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
We should banish it, because I’ve learned the hard way that it’s too abstract.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
Peter Stolypin, one of the most accomplished Russian statesmen of the era, loathed Rasputin but couldn’t convince the czar to banish him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
History reminds us big stand offs between London and Washington, such as the UK resisting American pressure to send troops to Vietnam, don't have to banish relations to a perpetual deep freeze.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
Territorial behavior similarly combines with a fierce disposition and a slow growth rate to banish rhinos from the farmyard.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
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
"He banishes himself, if you will, into exile," executive producer Sara Colleton told TV Line.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2021
And then something happens that banishes even that mystery from my head.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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He has been banished for five years, but it should’ve been lifetime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
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
The question, in the coming days, weeks and months is how much do we hear in public from those banished Starmerites, as Andy Burnham's government sets out its stall.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Wet socks are up there on my list of things that should be banished from existence.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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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