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
Verb
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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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These large predators were lost during the Late Pleistocene extinctions that eliminated many large land mammals from the Americas near the end of the most recent glaciation.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
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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Richie has run out of patience, so he's sent his thugs to capture Eddie.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
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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While the sector has been excluded from the recent tariffs, levies could come in the future.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2025
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He was being evicted from the property where the animals resided and allegedly denied access when authorities took him into custody Wednesday.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
7 Apr. 2025
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White Settlement police evicted three squirrels from a woman’s apartment April 1, body camera footage released by the department shows.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Apr. 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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Separately, Trump this week ousted Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh, the Commander of US Cyber Command and second in command at the NSA, and Wendy Noble, deputy director and senior civilian leader at the NSA—reportedly as the behest of conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.—
Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
4 Apr. 2025
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Image South Korea’s highest court ousted the president South Korea’s Constitutional Court voted unanimously to remove Yoon Suk Yeol from office.—
Justin Porter,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Expulse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expulse. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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