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as in displacement
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Recent Examples of dispossession
But the forcible dispossession and displacement of Palestinians, the deprivation of their basic rights, has been a hallmark of the Zionist movement and of Israeli governments.
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Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Nine years later, the trial begins and the film weaves courtroom footage with community voices and images to uncover the deep colonial roots of land dispossession.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Nine years later, the trial begins and the film weaves courtroom footage with community voices and images to uncover the deep colonial roots of land dispossession.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispossession
Noun
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Two years after founding Huffington Post, Huffington collapsed from exhaustion and sleep deprivation.—
Eric Rosenbaum,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2025
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Sensory deprivation training has become increasingly common over the past decade, particularly when Steph Curry popularized practicing with strobe goggles to disrupt his vision.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Trees with attached root ball displacements were noted, including one where the original location could not be determined.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
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The term, while satirical, reflects deeper anxieties about labor displacement, particularly among younger workers entering an economy being transformed by AI.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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At seventy, Padura is a voice of a generation that endured a long war in Angola and the privations that followed the Soviet collapse.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Since 2022, Russia repeatedly urged China to act quickly to save its economy from inevitable privations stemming from the collapse of its Western market.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Mark Hetfield, president of the refugee resettlement group HIAS, defended the existing global agreements as ensuring people would never be subject to persecution without an escape route.—
Ted Hesson,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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According to our Homestead Experience Coordinator, these bespoke technologies were programmed just for us, maximizing the benefits of our changing climate and our reshaped biomes, all while taking the messy human guesswork out of relocation and resettlement.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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First, contact a lawyer who has experience with asset forfeiture.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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The judge imposed a forfeiture judgment of $22 million, per prosecutors.—
Christine Pelisek,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Even though there was a collection of quarterbacks to start games between the Bernie Kosar era and the 1996 relocation, this is where the quarterback wilderness count usually begins.—
Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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According to a timeline laid out by the city, the relocation is set to take place this fall, and post-relocation care will be underway from 2025 to 2027 in order to help the tree stay alive.—
Jillian Frankel,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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From coverage of the Tennessee Three expulsion votes to the mayoral election and local development, we are deeply invested in the stories that shape our region.—
Nashville Tennessean,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Oct. 2025
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Yet most of those families are still systematically behind due to racial inequality, and Black families, of all kinds, are facing discrimination that leads to higher suspension and expulsion rates in school, lower on-time high school completion rates, and not enough financial resources.—
Meagan Jordan,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2025
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Arkansas has only finished in the Top 25 once since Petrino’s 2012 ouster, and went 32-34 under Pittman, so many are more than willing to forgive and forget at this point.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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After Milošević’s ouster in the Bulldozer Revolution of 2000, Vučić spent a decade in opposition before returning to government in 2012.—
Hanna Begić,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Dispossession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossession. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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