banish
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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
“The Traitors’ plan is to banish Ron, but I don’t have that in me .
From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026
The European Union and the trans-Atlantic community sought to create a rules-based international order of democratic states to banish such horrors from the world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
"If you're too vocal about theories, they don't like that, they will banish you. It happened to me as a faithful and it happened to Hugo as a traitor."
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026
Harry went back to the castle later that afternoon with Ron and Hermione, unable to banish the image of the happy expression on Hagrid’s whiskery face as he had imagined Harry winning the tournament.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing banish
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Essential Academic Vocabulary for Middle School Students, List 6
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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