despoliation

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Recent Examples of despoliation In the face of such extensive despoliation, grassroots opposition has emerged. Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025 The two latest examples of that despoliation are the Regina Bypass, an expensive highway completed in 2019, and the Global Transportation Hub, an expensive logistics center (canada’s premier inland port) built in 2009. Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025 From Central America to West Africa, Greece to Indonesia, Clapp serves up a stirring picture of the deliberate and surprisingly profitable despoliation of one half of the planet by the other. Ian Volner, New York Times, 1 May 2025 For that reason, the Abraham Accords lie in tatters - a despoliation very deliberately aimed at by Iran and Hamas via October 7. Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 Landscape exists to register ideas, like dispossession or despoliation, but not feelings. Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023 Related Christopher Ciccone watched from the Radio City green room, thinking of his father and grandmother, who, like millions of other TV viewers, would see the show at home and be stunned by what appeared to be the on-air despoliation of a bride — by herself. Mary Gabriel, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023 Millions of investors are participating in the despoliation. Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for despoliation
Noun
  • Despite years of sitting on the sidelines, the United States has an opportunity to reassert itself in seeking to end the depredations of the junta and advance the cause of democracy in Myanmar.
    Dan Swift, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Four people were arrested, and three were charged felony offenses of assaulting a federal officer, while the fourth was charged with misdemeanor offense of depredation of government property, according to a Department of Justice press release.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Thompson was arrested as a high school senior in 1955 and charged as an accessory to a robbery in Cherokee Park.
    Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In what is otherwise a slog of a show, Black Rabbit gets structurally creative in the sixth episode when the events of a robbery at the restaurant are shown from different perspectives.
    Andrew Bernard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The antifa movement was often blamed by police for the violence and looting that occurred in the aftermath of the murder.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Sewer workers discovered a 2,300-year-old tomb containing ceramic artifacts and showing signs of ancient looting.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Amid the pillaging of homes, Roman magistrates were likely sent to the city to prevent an anarchic type of existence, based on ancient literary sources the authors referenced in the study.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • First, the marauding, overlapping wing-backs drag markers away with decoy runs, opening up lanes for the attacking midfielders to exploit.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As an alliance grew between senators and financial powers, public figures began profiting from real-estate speculation, slave trading, and overseas plunder—while masking their involvement.
    Zephyr Teachout, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Reparations, long proposed as the only measure proportionate to the scale of racial plunder, look increasingly like a political, economic, and legal non-starter.
    Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker, 28 July 2025

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“Despoliation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/despoliation. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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