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as in deprivation
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Recent Examples of dispossession
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.
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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
That Haudenosaunee dispossession made the Erie Canal possible.
—Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
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
That Haudenosaunee dispossession made the Erie Canal possible.
—Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispossession
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The lesson is not deprivation but discipline.—
Irfan Sarwar,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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Modern French wellness is about moderation, not deprivation.—
Hannah Seligson,
Vanity Fair,
12 Feb. 2026
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Several billion-dollar CEOs recently spoke to Fortune about how fears of AI job displacement are overblown, while acknowledging that human jobs will have to change in response to the unfolding revolution.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
23 Feb. 2026
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The play’s final act departed from epic poetry altogether as the actors stepped forward to tell their own stories — about combat injuries, lost brothers in arms, displacement and life under occupation.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Feb. 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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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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Some of the activity was a consequence of the President signing a series of executive orders on the first day of his term to halt the refugee-resettlement program and suspend asylum at the southern border.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
17 Feb. 2026
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But, that same year, the FBI began investigating the department for misuse of civil asset forfeiture funds.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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In a complaint filed in June 2024, the group accused him of improperly retaining copies of the album after the criminal court ordered its full forfeiture.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
3 Feb. 2026
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Quadrupling the population over the last three decades has required their relocation to three remote, predator-free offshore islands and the micromanaging of the parrots’ every romantic entanglement.—
Charlotte Graham-McLay,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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Moving and relocation expenses will not be reimbursed for this position.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
Updated February 24,
Sacbee.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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In December, Fine called for the mass expulsion of Muslims from the United States.—
MARIANA ALFARO THE WASHINGTON POST,
Arkansas Online,
19 Feb. 2026
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The legislation would prohibit schools from enforcing their cell phone bans through fines, fees, suspensions, expulsions, ticketing, or deployment of police officers or school resource officers.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Two years before Tony Clark’s sudden resignation made Bruce Meyer the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, Meyer composed a letter to quiet the union members calling for his ouster.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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News of Butler’s ouster appeared to have the effect that Hegseth desired as word spread across the military’s public-affairs community.—
Missy Ryan,
The Atlantic,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Dispossession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossession. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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