1
as in exclusion
treatment that is deliberately exclusionary
Teenagers may act against their better judgement to avoid social ostracism.
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as in exile
the forced removal from a homeland
His family celebrated his safe return after nearly a decade of political ostracism.
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Recent Examples of ostracism
Eggers takes things a step further, positioning his Ellen as a young woman whose depressive and otherworldly nature has led to her ostracism among her 19th century peers.
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Megan McCluskey, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
For instance, employees in lower-ranking positions may feel unable to voice concerns due to fears of direct retaliation from their managers or ostracism.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Where Lenin's system has won for itself international ostracism and armed intervention, that of Mussolini has been the subject of widespread enthusiasm.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
But schools have degenerated into Chinese re-education camps to indoctrinate youth in fact-free intellectual dogmas currently in vogue through name-calling, ostracism and concocted accusations of bigotry.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2024
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Megan McCluskey, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
For instance, employees in lower-ranking positions may feel unable to voice concerns due to fears of direct retaliation from their managers or ostracism.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Where Lenin's system has won for itself international ostracism and armed intervention, that of Mussolini has been the subject of widespread enthusiasm.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
But schools have degenerated into Chinese re-education camps to indoctrinate youth in fact-free intellectual dogmas currently in vogue through name-calling, ostracism and concocted accusations of bigotry.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ostracism
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In clinical practice, the inclusion or exclusion of certain patient characteristics—such as age, gender or specific conditions—can dramatically alter the relevance of a document.—
Michal Tzuchman Katz MD,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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The project aimed to integrate white, Black and Asian Americans amid segregationist policies, redlining and exclusion.—
Shawna Chen,
Axios,
20 Feb. 2025
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Dugin ultimately left the National Patriotic Front and began meeting with Eduard Limonov, the writer, who had just returned to Russia after nearly two decades in exile.—
James Verini,
The New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2025
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Rushdie had been scheduled Aug. 12, 2022, to deliver a talk about how the United States has been a safe haven for writers and other artists in exile at the Chautauqua Institution amphitheater.—
Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports,
arkansasonline.com,
23 Feb. 2025
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More than 40,000 Palestinians have been displaced from those areas, according to the United Nations and Israel's defense minister — the largest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in decades.—
Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
23 Feb. 2025
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The Israeli military operation across several West Bank cities has displaced roughly 40,000 Palestinians from their homes, in what experts say is the biggest displacement of civilians in the territory since the Arab-Israeli war of 1967.—
Isabel Kershner,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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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
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The expulsions of the Barnard students were disclosed Saturday by Columbia University Apartheid Divest.—
Emma Tucker,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Ostracism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ostracism. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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