disfurnishment

noun

as in invasion

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disfurnishment
  1. invasion
  2. ejection
  3. occupancy
  4. stripping
  5. infringement
  6. occupation
  7. encroachment
  8. dispossession
Noun
  • Serhii Okunev | Afp | Getty Images Ukrainian drones struck a major oil refinery in the city of Omsk in western Siberia, in what appears to be one of Kyiv's deepest attacks on Russian territory since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • Anxiety in the Russian capital is high following Ukraine’s June 18 drone attack, the largest since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, and the second targeting Moscow’s Kapotnya refinery in less than a week.
    — Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
Definition of invasion
Noun
  • Notably, American striker Folarin Balogun was permitted to play by FIFA despite receiving a red card and ejection in the prior game.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • The ejection seemed to spark the Padres back from a season-high eight-game losing streak, though the Dodgers didn’t make the win easy at times.
    — Liana Handler Follow, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
Definition of ejection
Noun
  • Soundstage occupancy has dropped from 90% in 2022 to 62% last year.
    — Noah Wyle, Deadline, 6 July 2026
  • Colorado nursing and assisted living facilities hold a total of about 46,000 beds, with a nursing home occupancy rate around 80%, according to industry data.
    — Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 5 July 2026
Definition of occupancy
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  • Ending the program for everyone, immigrant advocates say, would be the country's largest-ever stripping of legal status from people who now have it.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 25 June 2026
  • Korean cleansing oils help with this problem by thoroughly washing away impurities without the harsh stripping.
    — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 23 June 2026
Definition of stripping
Noun
  • Copyright infringement occurs when the whole or a substantial part of a work protected by copyright — such as a photograph, illustration or novel — is reproduced without the author’s permission.
    — Zoey Forbes, The Dial, 7 July 2026
  • In 2021, Meghan also took on Associated Newspapers, bringing a lawsuit over invasion of privacy and copyright infringement.
    — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 7 July 2026
Definition of infringement
Noun
  • In video of the occupation, Tubbs and his trusty dog Pujo can be seen sitting atop a towering twenty-foot platform, precariously balanced on two long poles anchored by an unwieldy pair of cables.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
  • Or in Rabat, the city established by France as the administrative and political capital of Morocco, during its forty-nine-year occupation of the country, and the home of a gleaming new soccer academy, a symbol of the nation’s sporting ambitions?
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 10 July 2026
Definition of occupation
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  • The easiest time to draw clear moral lines against the encroachment of illiberalism within one’s own camp is at the beginning.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • Deadly trend continues The apparent attack in Aomori marks the latest example of encroachment by Japan's growing bear population in areas with an aging and declining human population.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Definition of encroachment
Noun
  • Frequently working with his partner Angela Ricci Lucchi, who died in 2018, Gianikian produced experimental films that considered forms of dispossession and the lingering pain that often accompanies it.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 July 2026
  • This definition of Black maternal dispossession simply aims to examine the many ways that Black motherhood is obscured and rendered an archival impossibility for research in my attempt to define it.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
Definition of dispossession
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