as in to eject
to force (someone) to leave a place
His landlord has threatened to evict him if he doesn't pay the rent soon. They were evicted from their apartment.
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Recent Examples of evict
In South Carolina, where 55 Council chapters were active by July 1956, dozens of Black people were fired or evicted from their farms after the signing of a pro-integration petition in Orangeburg and Clarendon counties.
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Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
The request for an interview comes a week after King Charles III began a process to strip his younger brother of his titles and honors and evict him from the royal estate at Windsor, seeming to cap Andrew’s yearslong fall from grace over the depth of his ties to Epstein.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Hawaii always meant a struggle for us because we were evicted.
—Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
In a suit filed Wednesday by designer Tory Burch and a few other wealthy residents, a contentious and, per the complaint, secretive deal to sell the building and evict them has begun.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 6 Nov. 2025
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Fire Rescue said one person was ejected in the collision and airlifted to a trauma center.—
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Georgia's biggest issue came in the first half when 6-11 center Somto Cyril was ejected for throwing a forearm into Florida's Rueben Chinyelu.—
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The Traitors murder the Faithful one by one each night in secret, while the Faithful try to uncover the Traitors and banish them from the game.—
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But there is more murdering and banishing to come.—
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Wheatley made her offer before he’d even succeeded in expelling the British from Boston.—
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Academics, journalists, students, have been fired or expelled, or, in some cases locked up for expressing their speech.—
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In September, Hecox filed a notice to dismiss the lawsuit.—
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Why was Alabama’s 31-17 loss to a 4-8 FSU team so easily dismissed by the committee?—
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The Navajo Nation said that dozens of Native Americans were questioned or detained by ICE agents last year, even though Indigenous people can't be deported.—
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An Ecuadorian national has been sentenced to just over a year in federal prison for coming back into the country after being deported following a conviction in connection with a fatal crash on Interstate 91 in 2017.—
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Black people and other non-white South Africans were displaced and dispossessed.—
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Jones is among the hardest players in the Liverpool squad to dispossess, using balance and awareness to protect possession and turn away from pressure.—
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Like, part of committing to that kind of vocation is to be taken away, to be exiled, to be on the outside, to be alienated, and how often that happens.—
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Being exiled far from their families and communities imposes a sense of isolation on the prisoners' sudden freedom after decades living behind bars.—
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Investigators later determined that a gray Dodge Charger began chasing the Toyota at a high rate of speed.—
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Tech companies have also been chasing the next big product following the smartphone and think AI could be key to finding it.—
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“Evict.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evict. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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