banishment
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Let’s say you were ordered deported and you now faced banishment from your country.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2026
"I said, I need it for social media," she told Traitors Uncloaked on Friday after her dramatic banishment.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026
Part hobo, part insult comic, part performance artist, Diogenes flaunted his disregard for convention in ways that scandalized the bourgeoisie of Athens and, later, Corinth, after his banishment from Sinope became permanent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
Cher wasn’t offended by the banishment; in fact, she clarified her fashion intentions with impeccable logic.
From Salon • May 3, 2025
“Perhaps my wife won’t like London; then the sentence is banishment & degradation into indolent, idle fool.”
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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