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deforcing

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present participle of deforce

as in evicting

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Now that same board is evicting Aust and nearly 100 other patients from the Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care Community.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
The ordinance would require landlords to provide a valid reason before evicting a tenant or declining to renew their lease.

— Megan De Mar, CBS News, 29 June 2026

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Mandi was in control of the ball, going nowhere fast, and there was little prospect of dispossessing him from Messi’s position.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 17 June 2026
How a state comes to control another land and its people, sometimes slowly dispossessing the natives of their lands, sometimes laying waste to them, sometimes committing genocide.

— Philip Metres August 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025

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The internet casually scrambles basic ideas of personhood, reframing people as commodities and stripping us for parts.

— Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 11 July 2026
The Eye network served as lead broadcaster for the VMAs this year — stripping an already barren MTV of its flagship event.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 July 2026

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