excommunication

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Recent Examples of excommunication The Vatican said Viganò had been told of the excommunication and that only the Holy See could lift the sanction. Christopher Lamb, CNN, 5 July 2024 But raising the age question was grounds for excommunication from the high command of the Biden orbit. Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 June 2024 To demean Kennedy’s candidacy and exclude his views with a barrage of hostile name-calling and unfounded accusations — with implications of familial excommunication — is an insult to the electorate. David Marks, Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2024 Conviction could lead to Viganò’s defrocking and excommunication. Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 20 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for excommunication
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excommunication
Noun
  • As news of the article's removal drew widespread condemnation on social media, Ullyot released a statement attempting to explain the administration's rationale.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Mahmoud Khalil's detention by ICE agents supervised by the White House has drawn widespread condemnation from civil rights and legal advocacy groups.
    Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Fox News was first to report the censure resolution.
    Andrew Solender, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The Washington Examiner obtained the text of the censure resolution.
    Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Cuban independent media have provided the type of watchdog journalism that state outlets are forbidden to do, often forcing the government to respond to denunciations first covered in their reporting.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Its political figures — particularly Gov. Gavin Newsom, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Senator-elect Adam Schiff — have sought and achieved notoriety for their public denunciations of Trump.
    Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Even as the Mayor tried to rush home from the inauguration of Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama, her silence to questions from a reporter who was on her flight only added to her damnation.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 17 Jan. 2025
  • However benign or malicious — whatever its life or death, possible eternal salvation or never-ending damnation — this spirit seizes your attention from the get-go because everything in this twisty, technically virtuosic, surprisingly moving chiller is shot from its point of view.
    Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025

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