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cast out

British  

verb

  1. (intr, adverb) to quarrel; be no longer friends

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cast out Idioms  
  1. Forcibly drive out, expel, as in We have to cast out these old-fashioned ideas and methods. [Late 1200s]


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The tension here is palpable, as she stares at the viewer through the screen as if cast out of her home by Schuyler’s physical and emotional presence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

TV makers may not go as far as Netflix has in scrapping Chromecast compatibility altogether, but they earn more from when people don’t just cast out whatever’s on their phone screens.

From Slate May 3, 2026

But as reports about actual rich people divorcing show, nobody is safe from being cast out from Olympus.

From Salon Jun. 5, 2025

Du Fu, Baruch Spinoza and Hannah Arendt were all cast out of their communities by authorities who imposed narrow definitions of acceptable thought.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2025

They absorb the nourishment and cast out the indigestible parts in a tidy pellet.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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