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as in deprivation
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as in displacement
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Recent Examples of dispossession
There’s this interplay of development and deprivation, of unbridled growth and displacement and dispossession.
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Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
Contemporary neoliberal education has succeeded in naturalizing the belief that action and movement are for the rich and powerful and surrender and dispossession are the pragmatic condition of life for the rest.
—Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
And similar scenes of fear and dispossession played out across the country, as Japanese Americans were forced to leave behind their homes and livelihoods and bused to remote camps.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
These forms did not emerge in isolation, but out of daily practices of survival and defiance shaped by colonial domination, racial hierarchies, and economic dispossession.
—Dr. Carlos A Torre, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2026
In Tulsa, dispossession unfolded not as a single event, but instead through the denial of insurance claims, the exclusion from public programs, the removal of homes through urban renewal, and decades of political pressure not to speak.
—Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
Living among vinyl records, books and videotapes – relics of a life once fully lived — Al finds his fragile balance shattered when a real estate company targets his home for demolition, forcing him to confront both material and emotional dispossession.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026
And so, put simply, the Park Service is not the villain of the story of dispossession.
—JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
Moved by Arthur’s story of dispossession, Dale wrote out a new will, which would see his shares of Indian Head Hills returned to Arthur and Chutto.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
Contemporary neoliberal education has succeeded in naturalizing the belief that action and movement are for the rich and powerful and surrender and dispossession are the pragmatic condition of life for the rest.
—Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
And similar scenes of fear and dispossession played out across the country, as Japanese Americans were forced to leave behind their homes and livelihoods and bused to remote camps.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
These forms did not emerge in isolation, but out of daily practices of survival and defiance shaped by colonial domination, racial hierarchies, and economic dispossession.
—Dr. Carlos A Torre, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2026
In Tulsa, dispossession unfolded not as a single event, but instead through the denial of insurance claims, the exclusion from public programs, the removal of homes through urban renewal, and decades of political pressure not to speak.
—Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
Living among vinyl records, books and videotapes – relics of a life once fully lived — Al finds his fragile balance shattered when a real estate company targets his home for demolition, forcing him to confront both material and emotional dispossession.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026
And so, put simply, the Park Service is not the villain of the story of dispossession.
—JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
Moved by Arthur’s story of dispossession, Dale wrote out a new will, which would see his shares of Indian Head Hills returned to Arthur and Chutto.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispossession
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Sight deprivation in early years may also shape how people see the world in the long term.—
Sachin Rawat,
Big Think,
2 Mar. 2026
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Jacob Francisallen Clare pleaded guilty to kidnapping from outside California and deprivation of child custody with a sentencing enhancement for kidnapping a child younger than 14, all felonies.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
28 Feb. 2026
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Orhan produces a haunting meditation on memory and displacement that reconsiders the meaning of liberation.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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Some analysts caution that economic realities may slow widespread displacement.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
1 Mar. 2026
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The earthly experience of personal grief and privation that inspired such transcendent beauty is mind-bending in its own way.—
Eric Bulson,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2026
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Diaries kept by Eugenia Zieber describe the privations of the trail, chief among them the frequent deaths of fellow travelers.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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This year, Miami Beach and the Miami Beach Redevelopment Agency are spending $390,000 on public relations campaigns aimed at stimulating real estate development and resettlement.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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Refugee resettlement organizations estimate this new policy could impact tens of thousands of refugees, mostly those who entered during the Biden administration.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
19 Feb. 2026
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The city will use state and federal forfeiture funds to pay for the boat.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Mar. 2026
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The revelation led to medal forfeitures, and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) also suspended the International Sports Federation for Persons with an Intellectual Disability (INAS), now known as Virtus, in 2001.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Others learned of the relocation through social media or from other patients, said attorney Benjamin Ikuta, who is representing the couples.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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The fire department said in a statement that the American Red Cross was on scene to provide relocation assistance and support to impacted residents.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
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They were prominently reported by this newspaper and its predecessors, which contributed to the expulsion of almost all Native Americans from Texas.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Mar. 2026
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This was the first time demonstrators had called for the group’s expulsion.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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In 2024, Abbott orchestrated the ouster of several Texas House Republican incumbents in favor of supporters of his private school voucher program.—
Karen Brooks Harper
Austin Bureau,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Mar. 2026
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The potential commercial offer drew comparisons to Trump’s push for US companies to be involved in Venezuela’s oil industry after Nicolás Maduro’s ouster.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Dispossession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossession. Accessed 8 Mar. 2026.
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