confiscation

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Noun
  • Trump's program came after the South African government signed into law a new land expropriation bill in January—the Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 replaced the apartheid-era Expropriation Act 63 of 1975.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
  • The law aims to address land ownership disparities rooted in the country's apartheid past by allowing land expropriation in the public interest.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • What kind of military would Canada need to survive, or even to resist, an American annexation?
    Stephen Marche, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025
  • And Trump—who has been bashing Canada with annexation threats throughout trade talks—had also threatened a Section 301 investigation into impacts of the DST on the US economy, which meant other punitive measures could be coming if the DST wasn't removed.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Newport police declined to provide more information about the seizure.
    Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 20 June 2025
  • The seizures allowed the receiver to return some assets to clients.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Like Nixon before him, Trump has leaned on historical precedent to make the case for impoundment.
    Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The impoundment act allows the head of the GAO to sue the president, if the agency concludes there has been a violation of the law.
    Deepa Shivaram, NPR, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • The takeover attempt is being led by Travis Kalanick, the Uber co-founder and former CEO.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 27 June 2025
  • Shell promptly rejected the report, but the market’s response was telling—BP shares eventually ended up 1.6%, suggesting that investors are reassessing the company's strategic worth and potential for a takeover.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Defendants were cleared of kidnapping allegations but three were convicted of a lesser, similar charge of sequestration with no voluntary liberation as Kardashian was bound at the scene but let there to be found safely.
    Alexander Smith, NBC news, 23 May 2025
  • The Trump administration has voiced its support for all manner of geologic sequestration.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Leagues Cup is still up for grabs, as is the MLS Cup.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 30 June 2025
  • Trillions up for grabs in the future and banks getting ready for it Microsoft says goodbye to the Windows blue screen of death Shares have jumped more than 33% this year, benefiting from cloud growth and the rise of artificial intelligence models.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • However, that was based on the assumption that the district would receive $300 million in additional funding from the state or the city, which hasn’t materialized.
    Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
  • Those pages are a garbled mess, and Thomas spends much of them starting from the assumption that his conclusions are true.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 27 June 2025
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“Confiscation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confiscation. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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