ousted

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A North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign and subsequent protests ousted Milosevic in 2000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

He returned as CEO less than a year later after the company ousted Owen amid a slowdown in sales growth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

But he fell out with the former colonial power and with the United States and was ousted in a coup a few months after taking office.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

In 2017, a few weeks before the coup in which his father was ousted, he posted a picture of a $60,000 watch he was wearing on Instagram.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

So Bing wandered down the beach, walking stiffly like an ousted emperor, picking up shards of rock and chunks of driftwood and flinging them with all his might into the surf.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan