deforcing

Definition of deforcingnext
present participle of deforce

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Verb
  • The homeowners were in the process of evicting Jennifer Crouse and John Crouse, who was 70 at the time, police wrote in the affidavit.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Several landlords who own similar apartment buildings in the city have described an upswing in nonpaying tenants since the pandemic and greater difficulties in court evicting nonpayers.
    JC Reindl, Freep.com, 19 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • How a state comes to control another land and its people, sometimes slowly dispossessing the natives of their lands, sometimes laying waste to them, sometimes committing genocide.
    Philip Metres August 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • By 18, Cipriani was stripping on ladies’ nights at a local bar.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2026
  • McKinney says the move would give users more power to opt out and delete their data while stripping platforms of a key incentive to scoop up personal preferences in the first place.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2026
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“Deforcing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deforcing. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

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