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This major win, surely, banishes such a notion.

From BBC

Three homeless people and the nonprofit Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court, claiming the ordinance “banishes” homeless people and inflicts “cruel punishment” that violates Washington’s Constitution.

But Rama soon hears that his subjects are gossiping about Sita’s purity and banishes her to the forest once more — this time alone, while pregnant.

From Salon

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.

In the opening scene of William Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” the titular character rewards flatterers and banishes those who dare to tell him the truth.

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