dispossess

as in to evict
to end the occupancy or possession of opponents of gentrification claim that the process unfairly dispossesses poorer residents of their long-established homes

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Recent Examples of dispossess Nico Williams soon dispossessed a stumbling Harry Maguire in the United half, and almost put Maroan Sannadi clear. Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 2 May 2025 Attempts to dispossess majority indigenous populations are usually violent themselves, however, and almost always run up against resistance. Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2025 Central took the overtime opening kickoff but were dispossessed by Pacific Ridge center middlefielder Nick Axelson, who pushed the ball into the Spartans’ side of the pitch. The San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2025 In the 29th minute, he was dispossessed and Villa countered, with Ollie Watkins getting his toe to a cross and forcing a save from Jorgensen’s boot. Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dispossess
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  • Land Power vividly shows the lasting consequences of this redistribution of land, for instance in the case of the Cahuilla Indians of California’s Coachella Valley, a people first confined to reservations and then evicted from even those lands in the 1950s.
    Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • Months or even years can pass before the owner of the property finally succeeds in evicting the squatters.
    Chris West, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2025
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  • Additionally, the nearly $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid could deprive more than 10 million Americans of health insurance and regular access to doctors.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2025
  • This deprives patients of the possible benefit of a new treatment while elevating their risk.
    Madison Plunkert, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2025

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“Dispossess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossess. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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