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 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 After a similarly vicious storm struck the New York area late Friday, hundreds of thousands of utility customers were left without power, trains to New Jersey were canceled and thousands of trees were damaged or uprooted. Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026 When Taylor got a development deal with RCA Records at just 13 years old, the family uprooted themselves from Pennsylvania to the Nashville area to advance her career. Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 3 July 2026 The horrific legacy of slavery, which produced inequities and exclusion, will not be uprooted with resolutions and holidays. Marcus Anthony Hunter, Time, 19 June 2026 It was originally named the Frederick Douglass Colored School and was located in a downtown Black neighborhood called Quakertown, which was uprooted by a bond election for a park. Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 June 2026
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  • He was pulled after giving up back-to-back hits with one out in the fourth to put runners on the corners.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026
  • The Thunder successfully pulled this off with both Joe and Wiggins, inking both to below-market contracts two summers ago.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 24 July 2026
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  • As residents pay fines and fees, money is extracted from the communities that can least afford the loss.
    Brian Lawton, The Conversation, 22 July 2026
  • During processing, the juices are extracted from the fruit, and the remaining flesh and fiber are discarded.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 21, Charlotte Observer, 21 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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  • And their semi-final victory over England was plucked from another incredibly precarious position.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • In the center of the patio stands what looks like a jumbotron plucked from an arena nearby and set it down on a platform, with all four sides showing that day's game.
    Becky Sullivan, NPR, 19 July 2026

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“Uprooted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uprooted. Accessed 28 Jul. 2026.

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