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
Indigenous and colonized people paid the price, dispossessed of their lands.
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Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
In The Stolen Heart, Samson sees Red Army soldiers violently dispossessing a middle-class family on that same street.
—Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 4 June 2025
Under apartheid, Black South Africans were forcibly dispossessed of their lands for the benefit of Whites.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 21 May 2025
The second one saw Moreno dispossess Salah and drive forward.
—Andy Jones, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
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Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
In The Stolen Heart, Samson sees Red Army soldiers violently dispossessing a middle-class family on that same street.
—Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic, 4 June 2025
Under apartheid, Black South Africans were forcibly dispossessed of their lands for the benefit of Whites.
—Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 21 May 2025
The second one saw Moreno dispossess Salah and drive forward.
—Andy Jones, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispossess
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Perhaps she is not actually evicted.—
David Wysong,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Sep. 2025
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Reilly failed to finish in her allotted 1 minute and 30 seconds and was immediately evicted.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Rayner’s departure is another headache for the United Kingdom’s increasingly unpopular leader, Keir Starmer, and deprives his cabinet of one of its brightest political stars.—
Max Foster,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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Others, such as the owners of the Firefox search engine, asserted that losing the Google contracts would threaten their future survival by depriving them of essential revenue.—
Michael Liedtke,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Dispossess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossess. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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