dispossess
Example Sentences
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"Hold On to Me" from Cyprus traces the efforts of an 11-year-old tracking down her estranged father, while documentary "Kikuyu Land" from Kenya examines how powerful outside forces use local corruption to dispossess a people.
From Barron's
Goldblatt’s pictures from before these events are touristic and from afterward elegiac; particularly moving are his portraits of the dispossessed, showing their bitterness and their dignity.
He believes that those at the heart of the protests were the "dispossessed".
From BBC
He has spent a decade organizing among the poor and dispossessed, including with the Kairos Center and the Poor People’s Campaign.
From Salon
But he was unique among the Democrats in speaking directly to the disaffected and dispossessed middle class.
From Los Angeles Times
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