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as in to seize
to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right
dissidents were shot, and their lands expropriated under his regime
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as in to evict
to end the occupancy or possession of
the state will have to expropriate scores of homeowners in order to build the new road
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as in to confiscate
to take ownership or control of (something) by right of one's authority
plans by the city to expropriate entire blocks of houses in order to bulldoze them for expansion of the airport
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Recent Examples of expropriate
On the edge of the waterfront, this meeting place where beaver and salmon abounded was slowly expropriated amid construction of railways and increasing industrialization until the Squamish were put on a barge in 1913 and sent to existing reserves.
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Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2024
Were chaos to engulf Moscow, China could move to retake the expansive lands of the Amur basin that the Romanovs expropriated from the Qing.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
The European Union is pushing to restore ecosystems in the face of widespread environmental degradation, which contributes to climate change, so the state has expropriated their land.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
The house of worship was expropriated and given to a Russian Ministry.
—Peter Pomerantsev, TIME, 20 Apr. 2024
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Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2024
Were chaos to engulf Moscow, China could move to retake the expansive lands of the Amur basin that the Romanovs expropriated from the Qing.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
The European Union is pushing to restore ecosystems in the face of widespread environmental degradation, which contributes to climate change, so the state has expropriated their land.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
The house of worship was expropriated and given to a Russian Ministry.
—Peter Pomerantsev, TIME, 20 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expropriate
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Six of the firearms seized at his home were legally registered to him.Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Trump also has seized on darker rhetoric used by far-right figures, raising questions about whether such incendiary language could become more broadly accepted in the GOP.David Jackson, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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The City Council took a step toward eliminating a rule that allows renters to be evicted when landlords carry out major renovations of their buildings.Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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After the assaults, the bombardment died down, possibly indicating the Ukrainians had evicted local Russian forces.David Axe, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers confiscated more than 175 pounds of the drug during a traffic stop involving a Dodge Ram pickup on IH-35 in Webb Country.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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In November, 2015, Turkish authorities confiscated nearly eleven million tablets hidden inside a shipment of oil filters headed for the Gulf.Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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The room is handsome enough, as functional living spaces go, with a bay window facing the historic house across the street and a mantelpiece that serves as the focus until attention is usurped by the arrival of the television.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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Chiesa can operate on both flanks but predominantly plays on the right, so would face an almost impossible battle to usurp Salah this season.Andy Jones, The Athletic, 27 Aug. 2024
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The first count said the officer deprived Taylor and her boyfriend of their constitutional rights by firing shots through a bedroom window that was covered with blinds and a blackout curtain.CBS News, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024
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The standoff captured wide attention, playing out during a key interval on the sports calendar and depriving millions of customers of college football and U.S. Open tennis.Dade Hayes, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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At a glance, Fitzgerald played well enough as a rookie to enter next year as the favorite for starting shortstop, hitting 15 homers, stealing 17 bases and posting an .831 OPS over 96 games.Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Amazon’s Alexa told users the 2020 election was stolen.Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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If the far right wins out, as currently seems likely, Israel will continue to dispossess Palestinians from large swaths of the West Bank and build more settlements, pushing forward with the piecemeal annexation that Smotrich has spearheaded.Mairav Zonszein, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
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The Gaels slaughtered them and drove them from their homes, dispossessing them of their lands just as the British would eventually dispossess the Gaels.Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2024
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The addition will mean RTP will continue to have a place to grab barbecue after Lawrence Barbecue's owners decided to leave Boxyard RTP for downtown Cary.Zachery Eanes, Axios, 18 Nov. 2024
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At one point, the man allegedly told Combs to grab a white bird from a cage that the man had presumably brought with him.Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2024
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“Expropriate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expropriate. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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