uprooted

past tense of uproot
as in pulled
to draw out by force or with effort uprooted the old bridge's pilings upon the completion of its replacement

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Recent Examples of uprooted In Mendocino County, around 400 acres of vines have been uprooted. Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2026 Once the new borders were announced, roughly 15 million people were uprooted from their homes, as Hindus and Sikhs fled toward India and Muslims toward Pakistan in search of safety. Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026 Video from Menasha obtained by CNN shows homes missing parts of roofs, structures stripped of their exteriors amid piles of debris, downed power poles and uprooted trees. Dakota Smith, CNN Money, 27 July 2026 Every Jay, even those not fearing their lives might soon be uprooted, must play with that concept hanging over the clubhouse. Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 25 July 2026 Larry Page, worth $297 billion, and Sergey Brin, with $276 billion to his name, have both uprooted to Florida as their previous home state, California, gears up for a ballot referendum on taxing the assets of the wealthy. Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 22 July 2026 One tree not only uprooted a sidewalk but also smashed a parked car. Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 13 July 2026 Trees uprooted, snapped NWS damage inspectors found the most concentrated damage where the tornado tracked east across Dirty Ankle Road and Ankle Road. Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 11 July 2026 Some 250 trees were planted along Shepard Road in 2024, only for 60 of them to be uprooted or vandalized a month later, followed by another 32 trees a year after that. Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 8 July 2026
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  • Reid pulled him aside both of the last two days for one-on-one conversations, presumably to discuss assignments and coverages.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Kerkering then hit Alonso on an 0-2 count, and after Mayza entered, Henderson pulled his 2-1 sinker to the base of the right-center wall.
    CBS News, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
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  • As the air is extracted, the coffee grounds transition from a loose, flowing state into a rigid mass that molds itself around the object’s shape.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026
  • Working with paleopathologists from the University of Pisa in Italy, the team analyzed DNA extracted from the ribs of Francesco I de' Medici, as well as Giovanni de' Medici, his younger brother who died of malaria 25 years earlier.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026
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  • Then we’re yanked into Louis’s hazy POV, from which Armand is reading another one of his apology letters.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 20 July 2026
  • However, their anti-tank and anti-air systems failed to make a decisive difference after the Shah of Iran suddenly yanked out Iran’s decisive support from under them and cut a deal with Baghdad, crushing Kurdish morale in the process.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
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  • After the Navy shipped out, hurricane-force Aleutian winds pried homes apart.
    Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 20 July 2026
  • My sternum was fractured, my rib cage pried open.
    Will Mackin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
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  • The clip, plucked out of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, spread like wildfire through the digital landscape.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • His presentation for the pavilion consisted of a single work by the artist and former Olympic sailor Charles Lim Yi Yong, a twenty-foot-tall buoy that the artist plucked from the Singapore sea.
    News Desk, Artforum, 24 July 2026

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