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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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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

It was billed as the battle of the two teenage wonderkids - and for once it was Yamal who found himself overshadowed, cast out of the spotlight.

From BBC Mar. 24, 2026

Other writers liberated by Ms. Allen include Horton Foote and Eudora Welty, who were similarly cast out for being “regional” writers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

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

From Salon Jun. 5, 2025

I’m cast out and I’m disappointed, but it shouldn’t matter, because they have Kamal Abdic.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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