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Example Sentences
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Bangladesh is scheduled to hold elections next February, the first since Hasina's ousting.
From BBC
At a Damascus air base once off-limits under Bashar al-Assad, a crew films a TV series about the final months of the ousted leader's rule as seen through the eyes of a Syrian family.
From Barron's
Kohl’s has gotten a lot wrong in the past year—widely panned store changes, declining sales, an ousted CEO.
That dispute involved a deceased FTC commissioner, ousted by FDR, whose estate sought back pay.
In the party's long history, Labour MPs have never formally challenged one of their sitting prime ministers, let alone ousted them.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.