banish

We should banish it, because I’ve learned the hard way that it’s too abstract.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Staring at the prospect of letting another seemingly insurmountable lead slip, Arsenal are desperate to banish those demons, having grappled with the tag over the past two decades.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

He observes that labeling certain feelings as negative justifies attempts to banish them, but he counsels doing the opposite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Moments later Cronin was grabbing the kid’s shirt and leading him to the baseline, where he ordered an assistant coach to remove him from the court area and banish him to the locker room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

Llewelyn made a small fire inside a circle of stones, and they warmed their hands to banish the cold.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Daddy forces them to hand him their company and banishes Jimmy to the Latitude mailroom.

From Salon ● May 29, 2026

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

This is the moment each year in which I go wild with asparagus, kale, peas, dill — anything that banishes the blasé gray of a New York winter.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

And then something happens that banishes even that mystery from my head.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

Its pendant is a statue of Thomas Jefferson with the Declaration of Independence, banished from New York’s City Council Chamber in 2021 because of what the exhibition calls “his history as an enslaver.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Now she has been banished along with fruit and vegetable sellers to a vacant lot with lower foot traffic, her turnover roughly halving as a result.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

The briefings, he insisted, were the "worst attack on a faithful" since rugby player Joe Marler had been banished in the finale of hit TV show Celebrity Traitors.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

A miracle that banished every unkind thought and filled her with wonder.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

Rickover likened himself to Attila the Hun and had young officers conduct job interviews on chairs with specially shortened front legs, banishing them to a closet if they disappointed him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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

The singer said she suspects she’ll be battling that toxic perfectionism for the rest of her life, but she’s gotten better at banishing it to the backseat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

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

And then Anna’s mother was flinging open the front door and pointing, as if banishing her to the desert.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli