as in to eliminate
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Recent Examples of expulse
In this case, shed doesn’t mean put in the tool shed but rather release or expulse the live virus into your surroundings.
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Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 8 May 2021
To expulse the Russian team from the Pyeongchang Games?
—Rebecca R. Ruiz, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 8 May 2021
To expulse the Russian team from the Pyeongchang Games?
—Rebecca R. Ruiz, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expulse
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Vietnam offer to drop tariffs not enough On Monday morning, Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro said on CNBC even Vietnam's offer to eliminate tariffs on U.S. imports would not be enough for the administration to lift its new levies announced last week.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 2025
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For football, one playoff win over a three-year period eliminates you from waiver consideration.—
Steve Millar,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2025
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Grant termination used to be a much rarer occurrence, reserved for more extreme circumstances such as some kind of ethical breech or an agency running out of money.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Don’t run out of gas on the Autobahn On Germany’s Autobahn, driving fast is allowed; running out of gas is not.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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What To Know Dimon is proposing to both increase the size of the credit and remove restrictions tied to family status—a move that would open EITC access to many workers that are currently excluded.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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Canada has also threatened to hit the U.S. with tariffs, though its imports along with Mexico’s were excluded from Trump’s announcement of tariffs last week.—
Lauren Irwin,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
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Part of it is to demote Jackson, the President who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation and signed legislation that forcibly evicted thousands of Native Americans from their land.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2025
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When the theater refused to budge, the mayor threatened to evict them.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Mar. 2025
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His family are from Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist kingdom on the eastern edge of the Himalayas, from where they were expelled in the 1990s because of a conflict over ethnicity and politics, sparked by resurgent Bhutanese nationalists.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
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But two days after Trump retook the White House this year on promises of tightening America’s borders and expelling violent criminals, Parris found himself at a red light in his Arizona neighborhood, surrounded by unmarked SUVs.—
Celina Tebor,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2025
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After a month-long pause, during which the Kremlin’s priority was to eject a strong Ukrainian force from western Russia’s Kursk Oblast, the Russians are on the attack again outside Pokrovsk, a fortress city in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.—
David Axe,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Reid, DiVincenzo, Holland, Isaiah Stewart, Marcus Sasser, Bickerstaff, 46, and Prigioni, 47, were all ejected from the game, NBA.com reported.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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The Democratic primary turnout between Waukegan and North Chicago was 3,309 votes cast out of a registered voter base of 50,059 or 6.6%, according to the Lake County Clerk’s Office.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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Our real-time ranking of Trump’s new brain trust, from giants of industry, old hands and emerging outsiders, tracks who’s in the inner circle—and who’s been cast out.—
Joe Walsh,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
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South Korean court upholds impeachment South Korea’s Constitutional Court Friday upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, ousting him from office.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2025
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The last time a sitting CMC vice chair was purged was more than three decades ago, when then-Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang was ousted for sympathizing with student protesters in the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Expulse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expulse. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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