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
  • Moscow has repeatedly warned the UK and other Kyiv allies over their support for Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in 2022.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
  • Privately, Biden and his advisers used the visit to Israel to try to persuade Netanyahu’s war cabinet to postpone an invasion of Gaza.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of invasion
Noun
  • The Swiss played a good chunk of the match with 10 men after review changed a yellow card on an Argentine player into a second yellow card (and an ejection) for one of their own.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 13 July 2026
  • Giants manager Tony Vitello came out to argue the call and was ejected by plate umpire Lance Barksdale, the second ejection this season for the first-year skipper.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
Definition of ejection
Noun
  • Commercial occupancy levels in the city, along with retail spending and public transit usage, have gradually been returning to near pre-Covid levels after several difficult years due to the pandemic and other factors.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 22 July 2026
  • The new measure also captures people the old one ignores entirely—including nursing-home residents and students in dorms, who don’t show up in owner-occupancy data at all.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 22 July 2026
Definition of occupancy
Noun
  • Pillows filled with cotton or polyester are also safe for laundry stripping.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 12 July 2026
  • The funeral was never its doing, yet the company sits squarely at the center of the picture, and the one thing genuinely within its control is the very thing that failed, which is the stripping of its markings before resale.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of stripping
Noun
  • The panel of three judges dismissed the case, writing in their opinion that the decision should not be taken to mean that Koons’s use of the sculpture did not constitute copyright infringement.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2026
  • Pharmaceutical companies regularly sue each other over patent infringement claims.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 21 July 2026
Definition of infringement
Noun
  • Experts emphasize Syria's 29-year occupation history makes any new involvement politically toxic.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • If entry-level consultants, lawyers, and financial analysts were being systematically substituted out at the pace Amodei described to 60 Minutes in November 2025, McCrory’s occupation-level unemployment data should already show some divergence.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 July 2026
Definition of occupation
Noun
  • Staff again recommended approving the encroachment permit for the new fence.
    — Alula Alderson, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026
  • Despite the consistent encroachment of technology into the sporting field, greater personalization, and more powerful prediction tools, the unpredictable nature of sports is what keeps fans engaged.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 9 July 2026
Definition of encroachment
Noun
  • That pattern has held since the Revolutionary War, from the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II to today’s active-duty ranks, even as Native nations endured broken treaties, dispossession and federal violence at the hands of the government.
    — Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation, 9 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of dispossession
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