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as in deprivation
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as in displacement
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Recent Examples of dispossession
So yeah, there was this painful past of dispossession and disease and sickness and population loss.
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AFAR Media, 30 May 2026
This is an evolving machinery in which datafication facilitates dispossession.
—Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
There’s nothing inherently antisemitic about protesting over the dispossession of Palestinians, and the attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers, which appear to be sanctioned by the Israeli government.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
Martel explores the killing not as an isolated event in her country’s recent past but as part of a long history of dispossession.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
For them, a donkey taken from the Palestinian community represents another form of settler dispossession, regardless of whether that removal is carried out through acts of care by sanctuary workers near Tel Aviv or through physical violence by Jewish shepherds in the West Bank.
—Irus Braverman, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
Spanning 1542, 1988 and 2023, the film follows three generations of the Kambeba people resisting the long consequences of European invasion and dispossession.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
In his report, Roth outlines the Indigenous determinants of health, ranging from land tenure and governance authority that strengthen Indigenous well-being to risk indicators like land dispossession and exclusion from decision-making.
—Anita Hofschneider, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Indigenous artists and collectives who live in rural communities—far from the capitals, far from art-world infrastructure—and who contend daily with continuing forms of colonial dispossession have to perform multiple acts of translation before their work reaches the museum.
—María Carri, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2026
AFAR Media, 30 May 2026
This is an evolving machinery in which datafication facilitates dispossession.
—Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
There’s nothing inherently antisemitic about protesting over the dispossession of Palestinians, and the attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers, which appear to be sanctioned by the Israeli government.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
Martel explores the killing not as an isolated event in her country’s recent past but as part of a long history of dispossession.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
For them, a donkey taken from the Palestinian community represents another form of settler dispossession, regardless of whether that removal is carried out through acts of care by sanctuary workers near Tel Aviv or through physical violence by Jewish shepherds in the West Bank.
—Irus Braverman, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
Spanning 1542, 1988 and 2023, the film follows three generations of the Kambeba people resisting the long consequences of European invasion and dispossession.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
In his report, Roth outlines the Indigenous determinants of health, ranging from land tenure and governance authority that strengthen Indigenous well-being to risk indicators like land dispossession and exclusion from decision-making.
—Anita Hofschneider, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Indigenous artists and collectives who live in rural communities—far from the capitals, far from art-world infrastructure—and who contend daily with continuing forms of colonial dispossession have to perform multiple acts of translation before their work reaches the museum.
—María Carri, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispossession
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Consistent short sleep, however, has been linked to measurable declines in cognitive performance and day-to-day functioning, while chronic sleep deprivation is associated with more serious long-term health risks.—
Sharon Brandwein,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
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Consumers no longer see moderation as deprivation.—
Kate Hardcastle,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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While Liden’s displacement and depersonalization of private property in Unheimlich Manöver could be perceived as the inversion of Darboven’s cocooning, the artists share a preoccupation with the silent speech of objects and with language as a spatial entity.—
Erika Landström,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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The practice, at least this year, has been an Archimedean displacement of power, as Democratic contenders filled the bottom of the bath with a divided vote, and Republicans, possibly to their own surprise, rose.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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The novel emphasizes that these conditions of privation and dispossession are themselves a vicious inheritance, that bloodshed and conquest have long characterized the story of this land.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
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Meanwhile, the European settlers, underprepared for actual conditions in the region, suffered great privations, and only 1,500 remained by 1832.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
19 Mar. 2026
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Local authorities are providing relief, medical care and resettlement assistance to affected residents, the news report said.—
Grant Peck,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026
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Lê Shackelford said Columbus Park has historical ties to Vietnamese refugee resettlement after the war and already includes Asian businesses such as Vietnam Café, Pho Lan, Tian Tea House and Café Cà Phê.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
29 May 2026
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He was sentenced to 87 months in prison and ordered to pay almost $374,000 in restitution and over $200,000 in forfeiture.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC news,
3 June 2026
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However, with the forfeiture, other, higher-profile personnel transactions might have been possible.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
3 June 2026
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And, the bill creates a new protocol for when children under the agency’s supervision are taken out of state that requires parents to notify the agency if the relocation lasts for more than two weeks.—
Laura Tillman,
Hartford Courant,
2 June 2026
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Phina is pregnant with their fourth child during this abrupt relocation.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
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The young Brooks’s disciplinary problems began with fights in primary school and culminated in his expulsion from college for threatening a policeman with a firearm.—
Rob Wolfe,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
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The Board of Education approves the Orange County Depart of Education’s annual budget, also hearing appeals for expulsions, charter school applications and inter-district transfers.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
3 June 2026
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Mullin is keeping them Noem had a host of controversies before her ouster.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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Sparked by then-president Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to abandon European Union membership in favor of closer ties with Russia, the Maidan uprising ultimately led to his ouster.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
3 June 2026
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“Dispossession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossession. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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