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as in deprivation
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as in displacement
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Recent Examples of dispossession
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.
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
That Haudenosaunee dispossession made the Erie Canal possible.
—Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
By addressing notions of dispossession and racialization, Nolan aims at looking for ways to repair the world.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
Nguyen, who lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, creates films and sculptures embodying the ripple effects of violence and dispossession.
—News Desk, Artforum, 8 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
That Haudenosaunee dispossession made the Erie Canal possible.
—Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
By addressing notions of dispossession and racialization, Nolan aims at looking for ways to repair the world.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
Nguyen, who lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, creates films and sculptures embodying the ripple effects of violence and dispossession.
—News Desk, Artforum, 8 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
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Carskadon says all of this contributes to pervasive sleep deprivation.—
NPR,
NPR,
2 Nov. 2025
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Facility one-upsmanship, all in the name of attracting better recruits, led to practice facilities with mini-golf courses (Clemson), marble showers in the locker room (Oregon) and sensory deprivation tanks (Georgia).—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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There are two questions Gazans have usually asked each other since the start of this campaign of unrelenting and systematic destruction, starvation, displacement and mass killing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Washington examines varying experiences of displacement, writing with tenderness about the tolls of emigration and exile, both cultural and familial.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Each comes to understand that the rules that prevailed during calmer times no longer hold, that to cling to them is to willingly accept privation and defeat.—
Tope Folarin,
The Atlantic,
8 Nov. 2025
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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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Others have shuttered their services, changing the landscape of the refugee resettlement process.—
NPR,
NPR,
31 Oct. 2025
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These include executive orders and regulatory changes to enforce immigration laws more strictly, pause or restrict refugee resettlement, reinstate rapid-expulsion policies like Title 42, expedite deportations, and increase border barrier construction.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Korf and Laber have asked a federal judge in Florida’s Southern District to dismiss the DOJ’s forfeiture case, citing the Ukrainian judgments.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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But he was cited for refusing to take an intoxication test after arrest, a license forfeiture offense.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Bill Belichick was head coach of those 1995 Browns, a team that entered that season with high expectations (Sports Illustrated picked them to go to the Super Bowl) but finished a disappointing 5-11 as relocation news became a massive distraction for the team.—
Jim Reineking,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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If approved, security officials will review whether the alternative site meets federal standards before any relocation occurs.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Israel’s first occupation of Gaza was characterized by war crimes, massacres, and expulsions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Robert Eggers' first feature tells a folk horror tale about a devout family — led by father William (Ralph Ineson) and his wife, Katherine (Kate Dickie) — living on an isolated farm in 1630s New England after their expulsion from Puritan society.—
Michael Lee Simpson,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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Khan blamed the army and the United States for engineering his ouster, and led energetic protests demanding immediate, fresh elections.—
Rafia Zakaria,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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Tidmarsh’s ouster is the latest in a string of haphazard leadership changes at the agency, which has been rocked for months by firings, departures and controversial decisions on vaccines, fluoride and other products.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Dispossession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossession. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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