as in evicted
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 dispossessed
Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2022
And when Israel gained its independence in 1948, Zionism became the world’s first successful Indigenous movement of a dispossessed and colonized people regaining sovereignty in their Indigenous homeland.
—Micha Danzig, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2021
Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 Sep. 2025
The forward was more alert than substitute Andrew Robertson when Dominik Szoboszlai was dispossessed when attempting an audacious flick.
—Andy Jones, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
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Verb
Without the voices of the dispossessed, how can there be deconstruction?
—Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2022
And when Israel gained its independence in 1948, Zionism became the world’s first successful Indigenous movement of a dispossessed and colonized people regaining sovereignty in their Indigenous homeland.
—Micha Danzig, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2021
Adjective
As with the enclosures in England and Scotland, villagers were uprooted and dispossessed to make way for sheep and cattle.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 Sep. 2025
The forward was more alert than substitute Andrew Robertson when Dominik Szoboszlai was dispossessed when attempting an audacious flick.
—Andy Jones, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispossessed
Verb
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Westmoreland—who also, to be fair, had a habit of not charging friends for many drinks at all—was evicted from the subway location in 2001.—
Ben McGrath,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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That was a remarkable turnaround from a player who appeared poised to be the first person evicted out of the house.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Children living in deprived settlements had to travel further to reach a playground, and those playgrounds tended to be smaller than those in less deprived areas.—
Laurie Winkless,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Their comeback may help regenerate deprived economic regions like Italy's Abruzzo.—
Ruth Sherlock,
NPR,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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Many of those communities are at the intersection of Milwaukee's most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, according to Census Bureau data.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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The episode and accompanying fashion show were in support of Kelce’s charity, 87 and Running, which empowers disadvantaged youth by providing resources and support to their communities in the areas of education, business, athletics, STEM, and the arts.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But the Shah’s failure to provide support to the peasants led to their farms failing, and sent waves of impoverished migrants to Tehran and other Iranian cities—many of whom would later fuel the 1979 revolution.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Her existence in the vibrant capital city of Sepphoris brings into questions some of our traditional assumptions of Mary as an impoverished illiterate from a backwater rural village with no exposure to Greco-Roman culture.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That child turned into a Guinea worm warrior, now turned into a philanthropist and an activist amongst his people, who is teaching underprivileged communities in South Sudan and building schools.—
Michal Ruprecht,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
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At the United Nations, Damilola Ogunbiyi leads efforts to advance an equitable energy transition that benefits underprivileged communities in the Global South.—
Elisabeth Brier,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And when the fire kind of dies out, the excitement dies down, and people are still left pretty destitute and trying to figure out how to rebuild their homes.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Sep. 2025
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Though the score was 17-6 while heading into the fourth quarter, everything looked quite destitute for Minnesota.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The slogans are simple, intimate, needy, and impossible to avoid.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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The company promoted itself as a way for financially needy students to obtain more aid faster, in return for a few hundred dollars in fees.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That money will go towards the hiring of two deputy county attorneys and two paralegals for the prosecutor's office as well as paying for Nester and her team due to Robinson being declared indigent by the court.—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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Judge Graf ruled that Robinson is indigent and appointed legal counsel to represent him.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Dispossessed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossessed. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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