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[ban-ish] / ˈbΓ¦n ΙͺΚƒ /


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But the real frustration will come from the fact Spurs had the opportunity to banish all relegation fears here and were simply not good enough to take advantage.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

We should banish it, because I’ve learned the hard way that it’s too abstract.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Staring at the prospect of letting another seemingly insurmountable lead slip, Arsenal are desperate to banish those demons, having grappled with the tag over the past two decades.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

And banish this phrase—“You’re away,” the needless etiquette of having the player farthest from the hole hit first after tee shots and other shots approaching the green.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

With the backpack-pushing and the assignment-ripping and all the general childishness that occurred between me and Miles, it only took him a month to banish me to work in the concession stand with Theo.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

"Anyone who banishes Stolpersteine and memorial sites commemorating Jewish life from public spaces to the cemetery is prioritising death over life and rendering Jewish people invisible once again," she told Bild.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

It banishes darkness, conveys telecommunications signals between continents and makes visible the invisible, from faraway galaxies to the smallest bacterium.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

This is the moment each year in which I go wild with asparagus, kale, peas, dill — anything that banishes the blasé gray of a New York winter.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

When Daemon's conduct becomes intolerable, Viserys disinherits and banishes him.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022

And then something happens that banishes even that mystery from my head.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Viewers who often get frustrated with the faithful and root for them to uncover a traitor had their wish firmly Richard E Grant-ed on Thursday, as the actor was banished in a landslide vote.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

After they were banished early on, a theory spread on social media that they were voted out because the other celebrities didn't know them that well.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

He has been banished for five years, but it should’ve been lifetime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Whatever engine droning and snoozing you might remember from earlier CVT systems has been banished to the Phantom Zone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

We tend to count the diseases conquered, the planets explored, the drudgeries banished, and to assert that the greater good is served by seeing things our way.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

This could be seen as a halfway house, whereby the independent disciplinary commission dodges the nuclear option of banishing Southampton from the play-offs but still applies a sporting sanction.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

Rickover likened himself to Attila the Hun and had young officers conduct job interviews on chairs with specially shortened front legs, banishing them to a closet if they disappointed him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

South Korea has an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment -- the last prisoners were executed in 1997 -- with a death sentence effectively banishing Yoon to life behind bars.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

The singer said she suspects she’ll be battling that toxic perfectionism for the rest of her life, but she’s gotten better at banishing it to the backseat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

“Sort of,” Qareeb would tell me before banishing me from his room.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad


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