eviction

noun

as in removal

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Recent Examples of eviction The print, Torero (1949), was discovered during a landlord’s walkthrough of an apartment recently vacated via an eviction. — News Desk, Artforum, 14 Aug. 2026 Those supporters have done their club proud, a point embodied by the gradual improvements made to a ground Exeter were once threatened with eviction from under previous owners. — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026 Money will also go toward eviction prevention and shelter diversion programs to reduce the strain on winter shelters. — Jack Springgate, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026 When the Wood Street residents received an eviction notice in 2022, Creighton quit her job and began documenting their efforts to stop the eviction. — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026 Also in July, following a tenant’s eviction, the NYPD and ASPCA discovered nine dead cats inside the filthy, unkempt Queens apartment. — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026 Big Brother host Julie Chen Moonves discusses the latest eviction, and Lyric throwing her allies under the bus. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026 Missing these can come with major risks such as eviction and foreclosure. — Mallika Mitra, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Villela and her children continued to live in the house, without paying rent but maintaining the mortgage and its upkeep, until last summer when Attard obtained a court order for their eviction. — Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eviction
  1. removal
  2. deposition
  3. ouster
  4. ejection
  5. overthrow
Noun
  • The Motherland Party filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court, demanding its removal from the ballot, accusing Yabloko of copyright infringement and exceeding campaign spending limits.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
  • He was detained in March last year and deported to El Salvador, but White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, and other administration officials, later admitted that the removal was due to a clerical error.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of removal
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  • Black has reportedly agreed to appear for a deposition in September and produce the NDAs.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The lawsuit attributes the new information to a deposition of Richard Cooper, the BBC’s director of digital distribution.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of deposition
Noun
  • Once worshipped by millions, Khan led the country from 2018 until his ouster in a parliamentary no-confidence vote in 2022.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Before his ouster last month, Fedorov had helped design Ukraine's strategy seeking to bring an end to the war by turning to drones and robots to beat back its larger adversary.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of ouster
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  • They were targeted, threatened with ejection, and embarrassed for no good reason.
    — Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • After ejection, the aircraft unfolds its folding wings and transitions to aerodynamic flight.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of ejection
Noun
  • Almost a century after the overthrow of the goddess Akaso and her kinfolk of local deities by the arrival of white missionaries, their disciples were stepping up to root out what was left.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The two had been in an uneasy alliance ruling the country following the 2019 overthrow of Sudan’s longtime dictator, Omar al-Bashir, who had been in power since 1989.
    — Chris Massaro, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of overthrow

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