eviction

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Recent Examples of eviction Crisis Assistance Ministry received 100 food boxes from Second Harvest to give to people facing eviction, Hardison said. Charlotte Observer, 5 Nov. 2025 Dimitrijevic put forward a super amendment that included $800,000 for the city's down payment assistance program and $100,000 for Eviction Free MKE, which offers free legal help for city and county residents facing eviction. Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025 One study of Florida mobile home communities found that in the months after a park sale, eviction filings increased by 40%. Cassie Powell, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025 During one eviction, Abernathy recalls, city marshals took her composition book. Victoria Bekiempis, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025 Consequences for Andrew have been coming at a slow trickle for more than a decade, culminating in this ultimate royal eviction. Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025 Added to the trauma of grief and sudden eviction under threat of reprisal, Adelaida has to endure seeing the sacred mementos of her mother’s life trashed by the thuggish new squatters. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025 The family faced eviction on several occasions and moved more than a dozen times before Smith was 8, mostly around the Philadelphia area, before settling in South Jersey. Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025 That could exacerbate evictions, which, Klocek said, are already rampant in Tarrant County, where roughly four out of every 10 renters face eviction, according to the most recent Center for Transforming Lives figures. Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Oct. 2025
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Noun
  • Some said they were held in detention centers for months before their deportation and were moved multiple times to detention centers in multiple states before their removal from the United States.
    Daniel Gonzalez, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The attorneys for the Department of Justice argued that the preliminary injunction blocking Abrego Garcia’s removal to Liberia should be dissolved because the government received assurances from the government of the West African country that he will not be persecuted or tortured.
    Laura Romero, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Skaggs’ attorneys also plan to play deposition testimony of former Angels pitcher Cam Bedrosian, who testified at Kay’s 2022 criminal trial to receiving pills from Kay.
    Sam Blum, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Future work will focus on integrating snow-deposition modeling with PV yield simulations to more accurately predict energy losses and on expanding analyses to more complex, uneven alpine terrain.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The veteran forward had just taken an elbow to the head from the Anaheim Ducks’ Leo Carlsson, a hit that resulted in Carlsson’s ejection from the game.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Nov. 2025
  • There could be an ejection at Kauffman Stadium next week.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Douglass’s former North Star co-editor, Martin Delany, who had been admitted to Harvard Medical School but was forced out after white students complained, responded to Dred Scott — and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 — by writing a novel whose hero escapes bondage and plots an overthrow of slavery.
    Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This led to the overthrow and death of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and years of chaos and civil strife.
    David Smilde, Time, 3 Nov. 2025

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“Eviction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eviction. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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