deforcement

noun

as in invasion

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deforcement
  1. invasion
  2. ejection
  3. occupancy
  4. stripping
  5. infringement
  6. occupation
  7. encroachment
  8. piracy
Noun
  • Their local rivalry might have continued if not for Russia launching its invasion of Ukraine and changing the trajectories of both their lives.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026
  • So what doesn’t Trump understand about Putin and how Russia has conducted its invasion of Ukraine?
    — Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of invasion
Noun
  • Sousa hoped the group could avoid ejection because soccer has no official breaks in play.
    — Matt Calkins , Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Batters who step out of the batter's box are charged with a strike, while attempting to bunt results in an ejection.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of ejection
Noun
  • However, in the present, start fining the people who regularly use the high-occupancy lanes with a sole driver in it.
    — Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Council members, however, were hesitant to commit to one of the three options without more data on the city’s downtown parking supply, including current occupancy information and user parking satisfaction.
    — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of occupancy
Noun
  • That worldview has become policy, aided in part by the hollowing out of the national security workforce—now stretched thin and focused on daily operations and multiple crises—and by the stripping of its coordination functions.
    — Ariane Tabatabai, Time, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Pillows filled with cotton or polyester are also safe for laundry stripping.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 12 July 2026
Definition of stripping
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  • Werksman Jackson Quinn and Mason LLP said campaign finance violations, voter and ballot fraud and civil rights infringement relating to elections can be prosecuted as federal crimes.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The smaller company won, with a jury determining willful infringement and a district court granting a permanent injunction preventing further sales.
    — Coke Morgan Stewart, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of infringement
Noun
  • Four years ago, crowds filled the central square of this southern port city, draped in Ukrainian flags and hugging the troops who had ended months of Russian occupation.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Transplanting Sarah Waters’s shape-shifting sapphic love story Fingersmith from Victorian England to Korea under Japanese occupation in the 20th century was a stroke of genius on the part of Park Chan-wook.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of occupation
Noun
  • Asked if their particular concern was motivated by the prediction markets specifically or the broader encroachment of gambling into sports, fans differed.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Doing so would entail repairing cracks that admit water, maintaining the foundations of each section, applying a sealant to slow the weathering process, and keeping the encroachment of vegetation in check.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of encroachment
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  • Why piracy is back Somali piracy emerged in the early 1990s after the government collapsed.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Of course, as discussed above, ArtCraft might not be doing anything that could be reasonably considered piracy.
    — Ruben Circelli, PC Magazine, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of piracy
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