banishment
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Let’s say you were ordered deported and you now faced banishment from your country.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 2026
Part hobo, part insult comic, part performance artist, Diogenes flaunted his disregard for convention in ways that scandalized the bourgeoisie of Athens and, later, Corinth, after his banishment from Sinope became permanent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
Despite its extended running time, the episode ended without a murder or a banishment, leaving us with a huge number of questions.
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025
It may not have been felonious enough to demand civil punishment, but it certainly required banishment from the game and from any of its rewards.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2025
But because the evidence was circumstantial, and because Bryce’s family was rich and powerful with lots of influence in New Rome, he’d got away with the lighter sentence of banishment.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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