dispossessing

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 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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  • 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
  • The suspension prompted Renken to sue his employer a second time, arguing UWM violated policy by wrongfully depriving him of his right to a hearing before suspending him.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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  • The risk is that the model overreaches, stripping out human oversight in ways that leave the system brittle.
    Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Dispossessing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossessing. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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