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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispossession
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This leads on to another societal challenge—addressing the issue of technological inequality and deprivation.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025 -
Five months later, federal prosecutors filed two federal charges of deprivation of civil rights against Hankison, but his initial case ended in a mistrial in 2023.—
Killian Baarlaer,
Louisville Courier Journal,
22 July 2025
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For more than two decades, displacement has been an issue in Austin, mainly on the city's East side, which has a large minority population and a high concentration of older apartments.—
Shonda Novak,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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According to a 2021 World Bank study, internal displacement is projected to affect 216 million people by 2050.—
Ken Silverstein,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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The policy, while inevitably controversial, was meant to correct for the nearly fifty years of brutal privations that Black South Africans endured under apartheid.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
1 June 2025
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But whereas the first generation of Chinese entrepreneurs grew up poor and were happy to wring a livelihood from cheap imitations, today’s tech graduates were spared the privations of their parents and yearn for something more meaningful.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
29 May 2025
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Prosecutors have also filed notices of criminal forfeiture, seeking the seizure of property and assets allegedly connected to or derived from the criminal offenses.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
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Trump commuted her sentence, which followed her conviction for possession and conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, conspiracy to commit money laundering and criminal forfeiture, according to the Office of the Pardon Attorney.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
29 May 2025
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During her freshman year of college, April’s life is turned upside down after a night with her friend, Rudy, ends in his arrest and her expulsion.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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Disciplinary actions included probation, suspensions (ranging from one year to three years), degree revocations and expulsions.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
24 July 2025
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Bondi has become a target for Trump’s supporters angered by the DOJ’s decision not to release the files, with some calling for her ouster.—
Sara Dorn,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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For weeks, Trump has been pushing for Powell's ouster, calling for the Fed to lower rates substantially.—
Pia Singh,Brian Evans,
CNBC,
15 July 2025
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Case in point, James Moll’s The Last Days, which zeroes in on a handful of Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust in the last year of World War II, when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary and began mass deportations to concentration camps.—
Will Harris,
EW.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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President Donald Trump has vowed to carry out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history, an initiative that has seen an intensification of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and arrests across the country, including people with valid visas and documentation.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Aug. 2025
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This data is supported by U-Haul's latest midyear migration trends report.—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
25 July 2025
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The better approach is to use migration as a moment to redesign.—
Sandipan Biswas,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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“Dispossession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dispossession. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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