excommunicating
- present participle of excommunicate.
Example Sentences
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AI isn’t going anywhere: It’s already an essential tool for the modern economy, and excommunicating it from the classroom would leave graduates unprepared for the future.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025
The Vatican has been considering developing a doctrine about excommunicating Catholic mobsters.
From Seattle Times • May 9, 2021
Another commenter added, “Why are they excommunicating you over a 1-year-olds attendance? That baby will never remember your wedding day and likely would never care that he wasn’t invited.”
From Fox News • May 15, 2019
In 1988, Pope John Paul II took the dramatic step of excommunicating a renegade religious society led by the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, which had rejected Vatican reforms.
From BBC • Aug. 29, 2018
He was enthroned at Coventry, but was barred out of Lichfield, where he commenced his rule by excommunicating the canons.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by Clifton, A. B.
