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banish

[ban-ish] / ˈbæn ɪʃ /


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More than that though, he vowed to banish factionalism from the party for good.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

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

From Slate Apr. 20, 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

Some girls and boys obliterate their rooms as they grow older, thinking they have to banish all their younger incarnations in order to convincingly inhabit a new one.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

Mary appears to have a form of treatment-resistant schizophrenia, until chemotherapy, following a diagnosis of lymphoma, banishes her psychiatric symptoms.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

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

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

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

Eight years on, and such concerns have been completely banished.

From BBC Jun. 29, 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

Too quiet, many locals say, because off-road vehicles and beach camping have been temporarily banished from San Luis Obispo County’s Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area since April 14.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2026

We tend to count the diseases conquered, the planets explored, the drudgeries banished, and to assert that the greater good is served by seeing things our way.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Five years later, Madison Square Garden was planted atop it, banishing sunlight and driving commuters into a subterranean maze of passageways.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 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

Not every present is greeted with delight - so instead of banishing them to the back of a cupboard, how can you get rid of them without causing offence?

From BBC Dec. 25, 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

“Sort of,” Qareeb would tell me before banishing me from his room.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad




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