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
  • Democrats in Congress appeared unified in their condemnation of the Oval Office meeting, viewing Trump and Vance's attacks on Zelenskyy as either aiding Putin or seeking to impress him.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The massacres brought condemnations from the U.S. and Israel, while the European Union sought to retain a neutral stance.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In a 224 to 198 vote, the House approved a censure resolution against Green, with 10 Democrats joining all Republicans in favor of the move.
    Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2025
  • In the end, however, Johnson decided to go with Newhouse’s censure resolution.
    Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Their desire for freedom was at the same time a denunciation of serfdom.
    Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
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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