banish

We should banish it, because I’ve learned the hard way that it’s too abstract.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Peter Stolypin, one of the most accomplished Russian statesmen of the era, loathed Rasputin but couldn’t convince the czar to banish him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

In 2005, an NBA dress code asked players to dress "business casual" while representing the sport - an attempt to banish streetwear from the league.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 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

Let us banish from our minds the thought that this is an unfortunate victim of injustice.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Mary appears to have a form of treatment-resistant schizophrenia, until chemotherapy, following a diagnosis of lymphoma, banishes her psychiatric symptoms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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

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

The question, in the coming days, weeks and months is how much do we hear in public from those banished Starmerites, as Andy Burnham's government sets out its stall.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

After Anthony’s dog savaged another man’s hog—hogs being precious in New Netherland—the couple was banished in 1639 to Long Island, where the two started a new life on land the Dutch wished to colonize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Even Ron Funches joked on Instagram that he wanted some salmon “to go” after he was banished.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026

He was not sure whether he was being banished.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Rickover likened himself to Attila the Hun and had young officers conduct job interviews on chairs with specially shortened front legs, banishing them to a closet if they disappointed him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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

“I don’t know which is worse, banishing me to the Ludington farm or marrying me off to an Ogilvie.”

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson