as in banished
to force (someone) to leave a place
His landlord has threatened to evict him if he doesn't pay the rent soon. They were evicted from their apartment.
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Recent Examples of evicted
Erickson's life unraveled steadily for years — and then, after she was evicted, all at once.
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Jessica Goodheart, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
She was evicted in February and died in May, while homeless, just days short of her 71st birthday.
—Jessica Goodheart, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
None of that will spare him from being evicted when the Labour government enacts a law eliminating hereditary peers, likely by the middle of next year.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Thousands were evicted after the city began limiting stays to 30 or 60 days for single adults.
—Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
In typical civil eviction proceedings, people are evicted after trials for not paying rent.
—Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
The rest, after being evicted, remain empty and abandoned.
—Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
The Presque Isle Housing Authority evicted her in 2022.
—Sawyer Loftus, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2024
But being evicted from public housing pitched her right back into it.
—Sawyer Loftus, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2024
Jessica Goodheart, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
She was evicted in February and died in May, while homeless, just days short of her 71st birthday.
—Jessica Goodheart, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
None of that will spare him from being evicted when the Labour government enacts a law eliminating hereditary peers, likely by the middle of next year.
—Mark Landler, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Thousands were evicted after the city began limiting stays to 30 or 60 days for single adults.
—Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
In typical civil eviction proceedings, people are evicted after trials for not paying rent.
—Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
The rest, after being evicted, remain empty and abandoned.
—Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet, & Axel Hernández, The Dial, 17 Dec. 2024
The Presque Isle Housing Authority evicted her in 2022.
—Sawyer Loftus, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2024
But being evicted from public housing pitched her right back into it.
—Sawyer Loftus, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evicted
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So, before turning off the lights that zigzagged across the lot, McArdle sized up the pile of trees that had been banished to the back of the shed.—
Greg Borowski,
Journal Sentinel,
18 Dec. 2024
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He was then banished and given the title Marquis of Haihun.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Dec. 2024
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He was ejected from Club America’s 2020 CONCACAF Champions League semifinal loss to Major League Soccer side LAFC after a halftime physical altercation with an opposing coach and was fired in the days that followed.—
Pablo Maurer,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025
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Both McMillan and Brooks were ejected and later fined.—
Jason Quick,
The Athletic,
6 Jan. 2025
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The United States historically has expelled the majority of migrants without legal status to Mexico and other Central American countries.—
Mennatalla Ibrahim,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Dec. 2024
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Then there is the business of riddling—slowly turning the bottle at a precise angle over time to nudge the dead yeast into the bottle neck to be expelled (this in itself is yet another process, not to mention the addition of a final dosage).—
Katie Kelly Bell,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
Verb
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This lawless case should have never been brought and the Constitution demands that it be immediately dismissed.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
4 Jan. 2025
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Just one day earlier, Kohli had been dismissed yet again by Boland after fending outside the off-stump and caught behind the wicket.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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Those comments provoked outrage in France, where police had rounded up thousands of Jews who were deported to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.—
Elizabeth Pineau and Marine Strauss,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2025
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His father was sentenced to federal prison on drug charges before Watson turned 10 and was deported back to Jamaica for not having proper immigration paperwork after being released.—
Shirsho Dasgupta,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Switching to Bournemouth removed Adams from the frenzy and bright lights that surround Leeds.—
Felipe Cardenas,
The Athletic,
24 Dec. 2024
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Bricks that were most likely 184 years old were removed from the foundation of the church, ending its almost two centuries-long mission.—
Noe Padilla,
The Indianapolis Star,
24 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Carter said that over the last few years of the investigation, he and other officers had been ostracized for their emotions and inability to answer questions at times.—
Jillian Ellison,
The Indianapolis Star,
20 Dec. 2024
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These power players are likely to vie for a larger share of the economic pie in post-Assad Syria, creating tensions with traditional business networks in cities such as Aleppo and Damascus that were previously dominated by Assad’s cronies and that might be ostracized under the new government.—
Karam Shaar,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Dec. 2024
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Historic flooding and years of civil war have displaced millions of people who lack clean drinking water across central Africa.—
Sam Mednick,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Dec. 2024
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Twelve years later, estimates of the dead range as high as six hundred and twenty thousand; another fourteen million people, more than half the country’s citizens, have been displaced from their homes.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Evicted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evicted. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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