Can
Can verb - To let go from office, service, or employment.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Tamera can't take it and quits, forcing Tia (who was already vice president of the Roses) to oust the president.
Source: Series / Sister Sister -
In Heaven's Bones, the gypsy Trueblood urges on a mad surgeon's creation of living "angels" from kidnapped women, and plots to use them to storm Heaven and oust the residents, including God, so he can become a deity.
Source: Rage Against the Heavens -
Technically applies to Beth's father, who plans to oust Beth's spirit from her body so her mother's ghost can move in, although he's so out of touch with reality that the incestuous implications may honestly never have crossed his mind.
Source: Villainous Incest
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