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as in deprivation
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as in displacement
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispossession
Noun
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Sleep deprivation comes with real costs Chronic sleep deprivation does more than leave people tired.—
Joanna Fong-Isariyawongse,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025 -
Daylight Saving Time and Decision Making Sleep researchers warn that sleep deprivation can severely impact those who make critical decisions, including managers, military commanders, and politicians.—
Lieke ten Brummelhuis,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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After more than 15 months of continuous bombardment, deaths, injuries and displacement, children and families across Gaza are struggling to survive without adequate food, medicine or shelter.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Ideas such as universal basic income (UBI) are being discussed as possible solutions to the displacement of human labor.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Economic privation could further encourage violent competition between Syrian armed groups over territory and revenues.—
Sam Heller,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2024
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But envisioning the privation that followed, with Panguna shut down, requires little imagination.—
Sean Williams,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
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The penalties were a combination of forfeitures and fines.—
Brady Dale,
Axios,
24 Feb. 2025
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These days the objectives are not about achievement but rather, forfeiture.—
Donna Vickroy,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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In the summer of 1972, the country's leader, Idi Amin, ordered the mass expulsion of Asians, giving Kishor 90 days to leave Uganda.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
27 Feb. 2025
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The expulsions of the Barnard students were disclosed Saturday by Columbia University Apartheid Divest.—
Emma Tucker,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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Pete Hegseth, Trump’s profoundly unqualified defense secretary, made the malice clear by calling explicitly for Brown’s ouster along with that of any other officer involved with DEI.—
Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards,
Orlando Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2025
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The ouster of Martinez capped a monthslong struggle between the schools chief and City Hall, egged on by Gates’ CTU.—
David Greising,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Feb. 2025
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Trump successfully campaigned on a platform of mass deportation and strengthening border security.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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He was supposed to be deported to Bulgaria last year but reportedly avoided deportation.—
Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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While Illinois is the outlier flat tax state among the top five population losers last year, South Carolina is the lone state with a progressive income tax among the five states that gained the most population through interstate migration in 2024.—
Patrick Gleason,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Much of the Floridan Aquifer is shielded significantly from downward migration of pollution by overlying layers of dense, impermeable clay.—
Kevin Spear,
Orlando Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Dispossession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossession. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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