as in to strip
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This proposal, which amounts to a call for ethnic cleansing, would strip the Palestinians of even more land and undoubtedly incite a violent response from Hamas.—
Mike Quigley,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025 -
On Monday, the mayor directed his employees to do the same out of fear New York City could be stripped of federal funding, according to sources.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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No president ever proposed anything so unhinged as Donald Trump’s brutal fantasy of evicting some 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza and turning it into a massive real estate deal.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2025
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They were allegedly left abandoned in an apartment when their family were evicted.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
8 Feb. 2025
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Starting in late 2022, the Biden Administration imposed several rounds of export controls on China in an effort to deprive the country of technology that Washington fears Beijing could use to make the next generation of weapons and AI systems.—
John Liu,
CNN,
10 Feb. 2025
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Their brief repeats the same argument that the courts have previously rejected — that the top-two system discriminates against parties and deprives voters of choice by not guaranteeing every party a place on the November ballot.—
Jeremy Gruber,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Disfurnish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disfurnish. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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