expropriating

present participle of expropriate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for expropriating
Verb
  • Metropolitan Police officers are also said to have raided Clarke’s home, seizing items including laptops and documents.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Governments worldwide are already seizing the opportunity to attract skilled workers to their countries.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the final part of the HOH competition, Ashley won and became the last HOH, evicting Morgan from the game and choosing Vince to take to the Final 2.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
  • After Domingue won the BB Blockbuster, the houseguests had to decide between evicting Soto and Jorgensen.
    Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Witnesses claimed that after France’s embarrassing loss to Haiti, the French government retaliated by confiscating Ferdinand’s belongings and abandoning the child to an orphanage.
    Marlene L. Daut September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Even confiscating half would barely register against a $6 trillion federal budget.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • What he’s actually done is fake his death to create a template for a new life by stealing $90 million from a client of his crooked law firm.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
  • One man was arrested and accused of stealing a golf cart.
    Bob Harkins, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • How a state comes to control another land and its people, sometimes slowly dispossessing the natives of their lands, sometimes laying waste to them, sometimes committing genocide.
    Philip Metres August 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • He has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with the sheriff and of usurping her authority, leading the county Board of Supervisors to eliminate his position in November 2024.
    Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Besides, usurping Jinkx Monsoon for Miss Piggy would fan the ferocious flames of backstage drama and turmoil (hmmm … Smash season-three idea).
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday estimated that a shutdown could furlough roughly 750,000 federal workers each day, depriving them of about $400 million in wages daily.
    Nik Popli, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude went to the Met, depriving Alice of a presence that felt alive to her.
    Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Securing the Shield ensures the top seed for Philly and home-field advantage throughout the MLS Cup playoffs for a team that has quietly gone about a consistent season without grabbing much in the way of attention.
    The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Without strangers lunging at her and grabbing her forearm.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
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“Expropriating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expropriating. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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