banish
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He said he was "delighted to win" but admitted he probably wouldn't have done so without Croft convincing him to banish the last remaining traitor, King Kenny.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
De Zerbi must banish the ghosts of two seasons littered with losses.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
We should banish it, because I’ve learned the hard way that it’s too abstract.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
Peter Stolypin, one of the most accomplished Russian statesmen of the era, loathed Rasputin but couldn’t convince the czar to banish him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Or would she banish them with salt and iron?
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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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
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
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He may have made it to the final episode of this year's Celebrity Traitors, but James Blunt says he did his best to get banished from the show.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Nor should computers be banished from the business of deciding what things cost.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
Judy, from Doncaster, took home the unwanted title of the first player to be banished from the castle in series four.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
By the time national-team stars such as Gianluigi Buffon returned to Juve, the club had been banished to the second tier and stripped of two league titles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Some say that Theseus had gone there because Athens had banished him.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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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
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
"He might struggle with banishing people as well as any potential heat he might receive," she says.
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
She has performed a kind of emergency triage, banishing the infected to save the well.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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