ousted

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A North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign and subsequent protests ousted Milosevic in 2000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

He returned as CEO less than a year later after the company ousted Owen amid a slowdown in sales growth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

But he fell out with the former colonial power and with the United States and was ousted in a coup a few months after taking office.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

In 2017, a few weeks before the coup in which his father was ousted, he posted a picture of a $60,000 watch he was wearing on Instagram.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

The Russians finally lost Lodz in December, but they could not be ousted from their entrenchments around Warsaw.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman