OUSTER Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

ouster

noun

Definition of ouster

as in ejection

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Recent Examples of ouster The question arose following the ouster from the September primary ballot of Republican Anne Manning Martin by the state Ballot Law Commission. — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 2 July 2026 The film, budgeted at $5 million according to Page Six, marks Majors’ return to the screen after a domestic violence incident swiftly led to his ouster from Hollywood and he was unceremoniously dropped from multiple major projects just as his profile was hitting a new peak. — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026 Houston has relented, however, following the council’s ouster of Commissioner Omar Farmer, an outspoken police critic, and a cooling-off of tensions between Houston and Commissioner Ricardo Garcia-Acosta, the current chair of the watchdog body. — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 24 June 2026 Oddsmakers are putting plenty of faith in the Thunder using their unexpected ouster by the Spurs in the WCF as motivation, and in San Antonio using its own Finals disappointment to fuel another run at the Larry O’Brien Trophy. — Juan Carlos Blanco, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for ouster

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Noun

Instead, his locker was cleared out by the time reporters entered the Yankees’ clubhouse, leaving Boone to answer for the ejection.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
The Mercury and the Fever also played on Monday night, a game during which there were six technical fouls called and one ejection.

— CBS News, CBS News, 25 June 2026

Definition of ejection

Noun

Rodríguez said emergency economic measures will include relief funds for victims and temporary waivers on documentation and property registration fees to facilitate housing relocation.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
In reality, only those padded with cash who can push through the lengthy relocation process will have a shot at living in New Zealand.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 2 July 2026

Definition of relocation

Noun

Accra’s 1969 migrant expulsion and Uganda’s mass ban three years later both triggered capital flight and supply chain chaos.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
The poems explore themes of loss, identity, artmaking and the natural world, as well as the 1885 expulsion of Chinese immigrants from Eureka, California.

— Suzanne Van Atten, AJC.com, 21 June 2026

Definition of expulsion

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Dajani has also worked on boards for a refugee resettlement organization and the Association of Arab American studies and served on scholarship committees at the Mosque of Orland Park.

— Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
Now disarmed, the dissidents will enter a temporary resettlement zone where the government intends to facilitate their gradual reintegration into civilian life.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 June 2026

Definition of resettlement

Noun

Sore from the torment of her family’s banishment, Espinoza feels the pulse of current events.

— Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
The appeals court ruled in September 2025 that Mid Vermont Christian must be allowed to participate in state athletics, after two years of banishment had passed.

— Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of banishment

Noun

Shaw, who was arrested on Tuesday by the Boise Police Department while in the city, is in the Ada County Jail awaiting extradition to Payette County, where she will be arraigned on two counts of first-degree murder.

— Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 1 July 2026
The notice is a request to police forces around the world to arrest a suspect, pending extradition.

— Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026

Definition of extradition

Noun

Officials caution that not everyone reported missing is necessarily trapped beneath the rubble because communications failures, mass displacement and transportation disruptions have complicated efforts to reunite families.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 4 July 2026
But any displacement by immigrants is limited and often dwarfed, as Card's research found, by job increases from new or expanding businesses that immigrants generate.

— Robert Hormats, Time, 4 July 2026

Definition of displacement

Noun

This definition of Black maternal dispossession simply aims to examine the many ways that Black motherhood is obscured and rendered an archival impossibility for research in my attempt to define it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
The novel emphasizes that these conditions of privation and dispossession are themselves a vicious inheritance, that bloodshed and conquest have long characterized the story of this land.

— Rachel Vorona Cote, Vulture, 2 June 2026

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