Thesaurus results for DISPOSSESSING

dispossessing

verb

present participle of dispossess

as in evicting

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 dispossessing Sveindis Jonsdottir capped the scoring in the 67th minute, dispossessing Tatumn Milazzo deep in Utah territory before rolling a shot past McGlynn’s right side. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026 Sveindís Jónsdóttir capped the scoring in the 67th minute, dispossessing Tatumn Milazzo deep in Utah territory before rolling a shot past McGlynn’s right side. — ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026 Mandi was in control of the ball, going nowhere fast, and there was little prospect of dispossessing him from Messi’s position. — Jack Lang, New York Times, 17 June 2026 How a state comes to control another land and its people, sometimes slowly dispossessing the natives of their lands, sometimes laying waste to them, sometimes committing genocide. — Philip Metres august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025

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One of the attractions of self-storage as a business is that evicting stuff is easier than evicting people.

— David Owen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
In 1968 Britain considered evicting the family by force, with declassified documents showing a plan to raze the fort.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026

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The rare condition causes the carotid artery inside the skull to narrow or close, depriving the brain of oxygen.

— Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2026
The pandemic closed the Vatican Museums for months, depriving the Holy See of one of its main sources of revenue.

— Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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Crenshaw dominated early, Caden Baker stripping the ball from Odebunmi near midfield on Cleveland’s first possession and scoring on the 50-yard fumble return.

— Joel Beers, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
At this time, the light from the first stars was stripping electrons from the hydrogen gas between them, a process called ionization.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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