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as in deprivation
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as in displacement
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispossession
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According to one 2019 study published in the journal Sleep, moms and dads can expect to experience some form of sleep deprivation for the first six years of their child's life.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025 -
The animals’ skulls are later surgically opened, electrodes are implanted into their brains, and researchers show them visual stimuli (images of faces, for example) to examine how the sensory deprivation or other visual manipulations affected their neurodevelopment.—
Marina Bolotnikova,
Vox,
18 June 2025
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From the enslaved people who built the foundations of our economy, to the immigrants who fueled its innovation, to Indigenous communities who have survived centuries of displacement, our nation has always been shaped by diversity, equity and inclusion.—
Stacey Abrams,
Essence,
4 July 2025
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In an instant anyone living in or near an active fire zone can experience evacuations, displacement, loss of property, loss of life and health concerns.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
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The policy, while inevitably controversial, was meant to correct for the nearly fifty years of brutal privations that Black South Africans endured under apartheid.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
1 June 2025
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But whereas the first generation of Chinese entrepreneurs grew up poor and were happy to wring a livelihood from cheap imitations, today’s tech graduates were spared the privations of their parents and yearn for something more meaningful.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
29 May 2025
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The judge also entered a forfeiture judgment of just over $3 million, court records show.—
Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2025
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Additionally, financial loss affects restitution or forfeiture amounts that defendants must pay after serving their sentences.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty on June 13 to smuggling charges that his attorneys have characterized as an attempt to justify his mistaken expulsion to a notorious prison in El Salvador.—
Ben Finley,
Fortune,
27 June 2025
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Nonetheless, Pompeo was frozen out of a job when Trump returned to office—a MAGA expulsion announced by Trump in a social-media post.—
Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
26 June 2025
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Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, a UVA graduate, would not confirm whether the Justice Department had pushed for Ryan's ouster.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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While Israel didn't play a direct role, his ouster removed another regional rival with close ties to Iran.—
Greg Myre,
NPR,
28 June 2025
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But for a reporter without solid immigration status the outcome can be deportation.—
Graciela Mochkofsky,
New Yorker,
28 June 2025
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Park’s departure is the latest in a series of high-profile deportations of military veterans that have come as the Trump administration escalates immigration enforcement across the country.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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While domestic migration remained the main source of population growth last year for 11 states, primarily in the South, net gains from migration fell in several of these states.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
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Deportation flights resumed this year as part of U.S. efforts to curb irregular migration.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
28 June 2025
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“Dispossession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossession. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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