as in to evict
to end the occupancy or possession of
opponents of gentrification claim that the process unfairly dispossesses poorer residents of their long-established homes
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Recent Examples of dispossess
Starting the game in intense fashion, their decision to press Barca high up the pitch paid off as Federico Dimarco dispossessed Dani Olmo and immediately found Denzel Dumfries.
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Adam Digby, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
During a discriminatory apartheid government that ended in the mid-1990s, Black South Africans were forcibly dispossessed of their lands for the benefit of Whites.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 21 May 2025
Nico Williams soon dispossessed a stumbling Harry Maguire in the United half, and almost put Maroan Sannadi clear.
—Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Attempts to dispossess majority indigenous populations are usually violent themselves, however, and almost always run up against resistance.
—Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2025
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Adam Digby, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
During a discriminatory apartheid government that ended in the mid-1990s, Black South Africans were forcibly dispossessed of their lands for the benefit of Whites.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 21 May 2025
Nico Williams soon dispossessed a stumbling Harry Maguire in the United half, and almost put Maroan Sannadi clear.
—Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Attempts to dispossess majority indigenous populations are usually violent themselves, however, and almost always run up against resistance.
—Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispossess
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Land Power vividly shows the lasting consequences of this redistribution of land, for instance in the case of the Cahuilla Indians of California’s Coachella Valley, a people first confined to reservations and then evicted from even those lands in the 1950s.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Months or even years can pass before the owner of the property finally succeeds in evicting the squatters.—
Chris West,
Baltimore Sun,
12 June 2025
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Additionally, the nearly $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid could deprive more than 10 million Americans of health insurance and regular access to doctors.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
25 June 2025
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This deprives patients of the possible benefit of a new treatment while elevating their risk.—
Madison Plunkert,
Baltimore Sun,
23 June 2025
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“Dispossess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossess. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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