banish
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We should banish it, because I’ve learned the hard way that it’s too abstract.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
She was recalled for the semi-final against France and scored twice - including another remarkable solo try - to banish any doubts over her form before the final.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
He observes that labeling certain feelings as negative justifies attempts to banish them, but he counsels doing the opposite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Moments later Cronin was grabbing the kid’s shirt and leading him to the baseline, where he ordered an assistant coach to remove him from the court area and banish him to the locker room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
“I dreamed of my mother’s grave,” she said, and as she spoke it seemed to help banish the magic a little.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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Daddy forces them to hand him their company and banishes Jimmy to the Latitude mailroom.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
This major win, surely, banishes such a notion.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024
It banishes darkness, conveys telecommunications signals between continents and makes visible the invisible, from faraway galaxies to the smallest bacterium.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
This is the moment each year in which I go wild with asparagus, kale, peas, dill — anything that banishes the blasé gray of a New York winter.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
And then something happens that banishes even that mystery from my head.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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He has been banished for five years, but it should’ve been lifetime.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
The midnight curfew imposed on that tour lasted more than four years until it was banished in 2022.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Orpheus tries to rescue his love, but his faith in her is tested on their return to the top — if he turns back to see if she’s there, she’ll be banished to Hadestown forever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Its pendant is a statue of Thomas Jefferson with the Declaration of Independence, banished from New York’s City Council Chamber in 2021 because of what the exhibition calls “his history as an enslaver.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
If only every wound could be banished so easily.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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Five years later, Madison Square Garden was planted atop it, banishing sunlight and driving commuters into a subterranean maze of passageways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
South Korea has an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment -- the last prisoners were executed in 1997 -- with a death sentence effectively banishing Yoon to life behind bars.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
The singer said she suspects she’ll be battling that toxic perfectionism for the rest of her life, but she’s gotten better at banishing it to the backseat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025
In case you’ve forgotten where “Stranger Things” left us, Vecna revealed that Eleven accidentally created him by banishing him to the Upside Down.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025
Zeno’s troubling paradox was explained away by banishing infinity and zero from the realm of numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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