ouster

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Recent Examples of ouster Had Musk won, a victory could’ve won him up to $150 billion in damages, and led to Altman’s ouster from the OpenAI board. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2026 The final stretch of the race has been tough for Massie, who argues the pro-Israel lobby and outside billionaires have spent millions of dollars in negative ads to fuel his ouster. Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 17 May 2026 Neither Johnson nor Duffey responded Sunday to requests for comment about the messages or Johnson’s ouster over the weekend. Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 17 May 2026 Senators have held on in elections amid their states' shifting political tides in the past, but usually their luck eventually runs out — as evidenced by the ouster of former Democratic Sens. Garrett Downs, CNBC, 15 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for ouster
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Noun
  • In the YouTube video, Edwards shared commentary on each of the six games leading up to Minnesota’s playoff exit, including his opinion on the Spurs without Victor Wembanyama and the discussion around the Frenchman potentially being suspended after his ejection for elbowing Naz Reid.
    Zach Powell, New York Times, 23 May 2026
  • Twins manager Derek Shelton came out to argue and was ejected by Baker, his third ejection this season.
    CBS News, CBS News, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • And, the bill creates a new protocol for when children under the agency’s supervision are taken out of state that requires parents to notify the agency if the relocation lasts for more than two weeks.
    Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2026
  • Phina is pregnant with their fourth child during this abrupt relocation.
    Rachel Vorona Cote, Vulture, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • Iran also intensified expulsions of Afghan migrants around the same time.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • Over most of the past 27 years, Dolan has been directly responsible for many bad trades, the hiring of incompetent front office personnel and even the expulsion from Madison Square Garden of fan favorite Charles Oakley, all while the team languished near the bottom of the standings year after year.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • In 2015, Dong and his family fled to Thailand, where the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees recognized them as refugees and they were approved for resettlement in Canada.
    Stella Kim, NBC news, 27 May 2026
  • Many see Jordan as a way station to permanent resettlement in Canada, the United States, or Europe, where the economic opportunities are better.
    Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • The appeals court ruled in September 2025 that Mid Vermont Christian must be allowed to participate in state athletics, after two years of banishment had passed.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Like there was a demon in his lungs, fighting the last bit of banishment.
    Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Romanchenko remained in custody Wednesday in Florida awaiting extradition back to Pennsylvania.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 27 May 2026
  • Ahmed, who fled to Dubai before he was indicted and is now in custody in Serbia awaiting extradition, is also charged in a separate scheme to bilk Loretto of funds through fraudulent invoicing.
    Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • While Liden’s displacement and depersonalization of private property in Unheimlich Manöver could be perceived as the inversion of Darboven’s cocooning, the artists share a preoccupation with the silent speech of objects and with language as a spatial entity.
    Erika Landström, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • The practice, at least this year, has been an Archimedean displacement of power, as Democratic contenders filled the bottom of the bath with a divided vote, and Republicans, possibly to their own surprise, rose.
    Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • So yeah, there was this painful past of dispossession and disease and sickness and population loss.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 30 May 2026
  • This is an evolving machinery in which datafication facilitates dispossession.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026

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“Ouster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ouster. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.

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