dispossession

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Noun
  • The relationship between dieting and food cravings is complicated, but some studies show that food deprivation increases cravings.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Another 2021 study found that sleep deprivation increased levels of cortisol during interpersonal conflict.
    Daisy Jones, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to the numbers Salvador shared with the Security Council, UNICEF has said that at least 94,000 children are living in makeshift displacement sites where families lack access to food, water and health services, all of which increases their vulnerability to disease and malnutrition.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
  • In the new complaint, the Young People's Alliance, Encode, and the Tech Justice Law Project accuse Replika of violating FTC rules while increasing the risk of users’ online addiction, offline anxiety, and relationship displacement.
    Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Economic privation could further encourage violent competition between Syrian armed groups over territory and revenues.
    Sam Heller, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
  • But envisioning the privation that followed, with Panguna shut down, requires little imagination.
    Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The Illinois State Board of Elections sent counties statewide a forfeiture of ballot list last month listing the candidates who filed for office but had overdue fines that weren’t settled with the state by Jan. 23, which was the certification date for the April 1 election.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Exceptions to forfeiture include medical absences, family emergencies, the birth of a child, or age restrictions.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Our digging had uncovered 66 expulsions for threats of mass violence across just 10 school districts.
    Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Image While expulsions from Libya to Niger have thus far been lower than from Algeria, the recent mass deportation has raised concerns about a potential increase.
    Elian Peltier, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Her removal from office during the November election marked the second time since 2022 that a progressive-leaning district attorney was recalled in the Bay Area, following the ouster of first-term San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • But Assad’s ouster has not yet addressed what those protesters fought for.
    Fawaz A. Gerges, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Trump administration on Monday removed protection against deportation from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the U.S.
    Simon Lewis, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The jokes fell flat, seeing that just down the road, thousands of protesters had gathered to combat President Trump’s aggressive policies against undocumented immigrants and promise of mass deportations.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • About half of its revenue came from cloud and data-related services, such as cloud migration and building infrastructure for enterprise data collection.
    John Kang, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Methodology For the salmon migration map, tribal fisheries experts provided the Chinook salmon migration route, which was mapped by filtering U.S. Census Bureau TIGER shapefiles for relevant bodies of water along the over 800-mile journey from the Pacific Ocean to the Stibnite site.
    Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 5 Feb. 2025
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