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Recent Examples of excommunication
They are set to be bailed out in two days, and the colony’s bishop demands that the victims forgive them—or else face excommunication and be denied a spot in heaven.
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Ruth Madievsky, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
But there are 10 narrow circumstances in which excommunication is not automatic — and Pope Francis in 2016 granted Catholic priests a right once limited to bishops: to absolve those who have had abortions.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 13 Oct. 2024
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
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Ruth Madievsky, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
But there are 10 narrow circumstances in which excommunication is not automatic — and Pope Francis in 2016 granted Catholic priests a right once limited to bishops: to absolve those who have had abortions.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 13 Oct. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excommunication
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Carr has multiple probes in progress, and his investigation into CBS over the editing of an interview with Kamala Harris has drawn condemnations from both liberal and conservative advocacy groups that describe it as a threat to the Constitutional right to free speech.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 Apr. 2025
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The politically explosive ruling drew condemnation from her right-wing allies in Europe and across the Atlantic.—
Caitlin Danaher,
CNN Money,
6 Apr. 2025
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Out of the privation, the challenge, and the censure of slavery and the unfulfilled promise of post-Reconstruction justice, Black musicians embraced experimentation and innovation, ingenuity and joy, and a multigenerational call and response speaking truth to power that endures to the present day.—
Elizabeth Alexander,
Time,
1 Apr. 2025
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The commissioners held an executive session Monday, an hour before the district sent an email with the Tuesday censure agenda item.—
Nick Rosenberger,
Idaho Statesman,
1 Apr. 2025
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This one is both meaner-spirited and clumsier, as Brooker grafts his prank call coming from inside the house onto a denunciation of one of the planet’s profoundest manmade evils: the health-care industry.—
Charles Bramesco,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture—which, until recently, was run by The New Yorker’s poetry editor, Kevin Young—comes in for particularly splenetic denunciation.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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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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Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ is growing There are many natural landmarks on our planet named after a biblical destination of eternal damnation.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
25 Dec. 2024
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“Excommunication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excommunication. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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