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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

News arrives that, back in Egypt, after a sarcophagus was cast out in a plane crash, Katie turned up inside the coffin.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

She even bested her husband, who competed this season as Stingray and was cast out in Episode 10.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 2, 2026

Partridge's latest misadventures see him searching for answers as he reintegrates into British life after a year spent working in Saudi Arabia, having been cast out by the BBC again.

From BBC Sep. 30, 2025

He received the aged Oedipus whom everyone else had cast out.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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