the dispossessed
noun
: people whose land, possessions, etc., have been taken away from them
helping the poor and the dispossessed
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October 7 shattered this paradigm, as the state-of-the-art nation was briefly overthrown by the crude weapons of the dispossessed.
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Seyward Darby, Longreads, 30 Oct. 2024
Routine and cliché, frustration and anger, despair and fatigue weigh heavily on the dispossessed, and impinge on the relationship at the movie’s center.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
As for the voices of the enslaved and the dispossessed, the island is unsettlingly silent.
—Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
An entire community of the dispossessed goes about its day, here hanging laundry or carrying water in buckets, there mending a tattered shirt.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
Her favorite subjects were strivers and oddballs, the dispossessed and the people who dared to be delighted in the face of life’s struggles.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
The idea that some form of Hinduism should be recognized in some way by the Indian state resonates among both the cosmopolitans and the dispossessed.
—Kanchan Chandra, Foreign Affairs, 23 Nov. 2018
All of them have drawn huge crowds by telling the dispossessed that social status can be reclaimed by throwing out the corrupt elite and replacing it with the leader’s steady hand.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 27 May 2023
To himself and to a public trying to understand the human drama of migration, of the displaced and the dispossessed.
—Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
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Seyward Darby, Longreads, 30 Oct. 2024
Routine and cliché, frustration and anger, despair and fatigue weigh heavily on the dispossessed, and impinge on the relationship at the movie’s center.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
As for the voices of the enslaved and the dispossessed, the island is unsettlingly silent.
—Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
An entire community of the dispossessed goes about its day, here hanging laundry or carrying water in buckets, there mending a tattered shirt.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
Her favorite subjects were strivers and oddballs, the dispossessed and the people who dared to be delighted in the face of life’s struggles.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
The idea that some form of Hinduism should be recognized in some way by the Indian state resonates among both the cosmopolitans and the dispossessed.
—Kanchan Chandra, Foreign Affairs, 23 Nov. 2018
All of them have drawn huge crowds by telling the dispossessed that social status can be reclaimed by throwing out the corrupt elite and replacing it with the leader’s steady hand.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 27 May 2023
To himself and to a public trying to understand the human drama of migration, of the displaced and the dispossessed.
—Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
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