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Recent Examples of ouster State and federal congressional leaders representing San Mateo County have also called for her ouster. Ryan MacAsero, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025 Today’s organizers are heartened by the success of two recall ousters in recent years, campaigns that toppled San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin in 2022 and axed Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao last fall. Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2025 The top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to Trump asking for an explanation about the ousters. Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025 The Islamist group’s radical ideology was never fully defeated, and after the ouster of longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad late last year, as well as the arrival of a new administration in Washington, some are fearful that ISIS could be unleashed on the world once again. Richard Engel, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ouster
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Noun
  • In the summer of 1972, the country's leader, Idi Amin, ordered the mass expulsion of Asians, giving Kishor 90 days to leave Uganda.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The expulsions of the Barnard students were disclosed Saturday by Columbia University Apartheid Divest.
    Emma Tucker, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Rafael Caro Quintero, 72, was arraigned on multiple drug and weapons offenses in Brooklyn federal court following his extradition Thursday to the U.S. from Mexico.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Then, in January, a nonprofit group representing the Camarena family sent a letter to the new Trump administration urging it to renew the extradition request.
    Philip Marcelo and Jennifer Peltz, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • After more than 15 months of continuous bombardment, deaths, injuries and displacement, children and families across Gaza are struggling to survive without adequate food, medicine or shelter.
    Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Ideas such as universal basic income (UBI) are being discussed as possible solutions to the displacement of human labor.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • He was supposed to be deported to Bulgaria last year but reportedly avoided deportation.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Trump successfully campaigned on a platform of mass deportation and strengthening border security.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025

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