as in condemnation
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Recent Examples of excommunication
Faced with excommunication by the Catholic Church, Zaragoza rode his Vespa nine hours to Madrid for an audience with Spanish general Francisco Franco.
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Joshua Korber Hoffman, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025
The threat of excommunication did nothing to change their minds.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2013
Thus, for the people of the Andes to be without coca is a form of social and spiritual death, an excommunication from existence itself.
—Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
Catholics who read titles on the Index of Forbidden Books risked excommunication.
—Joëlle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
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Joshua Korber Hoffman, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025
The threat of excommunication did nothing to change their minds.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2013
Thus, for the people of the Andes to be without coca is a form of social and spiritual death, an excommunication from existence itself.
—Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
Catholics who read titles on the Index of Forbidden Books risked excommunication.
—Joëlle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excommunication
Noun
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It must be asked not as condemnation, but as a doorway to deeper understanding—of her, of ourselves, and of the social and emotional architecture that keeps so many of us bound in silence, shame, and survival.—
Shayla Brown,
Essence,
19 May 2025
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The death of Rajab, while one of thousands of children killed in Gaza since Israeli launched its military offensive following the terror attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7 2023, sparked global condemnation, with student protestors at Columbia University renaming overtaken buildings in honor of the victim.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
13 May 2025
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Stupar declined to comment on the censure, referring any questions to Lynch, who is president of the board.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 May 2025
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Libby filed her lawsuit against Fecteau to have the censure overturned on March 11.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2025
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China’s vilification of Lai echoes Beijing’s denunciations, roughly two decades ago, of Chen Shui-bian, then president of Taiwan.—
Bonny Lin,
Foreign Affairs,
15 May 2025
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This one is both meaner-spirited and clumsier, as Brooker grafts his prank call coming from inside the house onto a denunciation of one of the planet’s profoundest manmade evils: the health-care industry.—
Charles Bramesco,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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However benign or malicious — whatever its life or death, possible eternal salvation or never-ending damnation — this spirit seizes your attention from the get-go because everything in this twisty, technically virtuosic, surprisingly moving chiller is shot from its point of view.—
Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ is growing There are many natural landmarks on our planet named after a biblical destination of eternal damnation.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
25 Dec. 2024
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“Excommunication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excommunication. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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