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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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London might have been swinging for other residents, but Palmer still lived in a neighborhood filled with post-War deprivation.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025 -
Inmates are frequently subjected to punishments including food deprivation and electric shocks.—
Mneesha Gellman,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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There’s our social life, and the life of a community, as well as our vocational lives, where job displacement and shifts are key concerns.—
John Werner,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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In other words, gentrification without displacement.—
Edward Poteat,
New York Daily News,
16 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
Noun
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The order explicitly states that the government will not purchase additional bitcoin beyond what is acquired through criminal or civil forfeiture without further executive or legislative action.—
Becca Bratcher,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Among the legislative changes was raising the government’s burden of proof from probable cause to a preponderance of the evidence, requiring public reporting of forfeiture data and adjusting the monetary thresholds for forfeiture.—
Samantha Moilanen,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But the only way our leaders should approach the Alien Enemies Act in the modern day is by acknowledging the fundamental injustice of wartime internment and expulsions and by working to repeal the law, not resurrecting it to devastate the lives of other immigrants who call this country home.—
Karen Ebel,
TIME,
17 Mar. 2025
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Some promoted other ideas: clearing away Gazans for Jewish settlement, and forced expulsion.—
Daniel Estrin,
NPR,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Howard and Tindall were part of a group that held a news conference at City Hall in May of 2023 and called for Platt’s ouster.—
Mike Hendricks,
Kansas City Star,
19 Mar. 2025
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In the days that followed Assad’s ouster, Netanyahu ordered an unprecedented ground push into Syria, driving Israeli forces deeper into the country than ever before and upending Israel’s 50-year tacit détente with the Assads.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Venezuela will resume accepting deportation flights from the US after Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro suspended the flights earlier this month.—
Anders Hagstrom,
Fox News,
23 Mar. 2025
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Khalil, a legal permanent resident, is challenging his detention and potential deportation in court.—
ASSOCIATED PRESS,
TIME,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Wild birds that make the twice-a-year migration are considered a risk because they can be infected and show no signs of illness.—
Karen Kucher,
Mercury News,
24 Mar. 2025
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The exhibition will bring the concept of longing into the future via personal and collective narratives examining migration, homesicknesss, and the search for identity, among other topics.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Dispossession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossession. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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