dispossess
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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 ● Jan. 22, 2026
They were visualizing that they would just dispossess them.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2024
But Leeds upped their game in the second half as Piroe had a shot well saved by Hermansen, while James Justin did well to dispossess Summerville in a dangerous area soon after.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2023
Vela’s faint effort to dispossess León of the ball was in vain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
He will be sure to dispossess his master, and place himself and his family upon the throne.'
From Essays by David Hume
He dispossesses Maradona, loses his boot and keeps on running.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2020
The second poem dispossesses the first, excavates and re-shapes the same material.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2011
But Watson, upset at looking like a haddie, chases back and dispossesses the Portuguese.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2011
Oof, as I was writing that Asamoah Gyan goes close again when he dispossesses the Nigerian defence and tries to lob Vincent Enyeama.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2010
One who dispossesses another of land cannot add the time during which his disseisee has used a way to the period of his own use, while one who purchased can.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
It was a similar story in the second half when Gravenberch was dispossessed after trying a back heel on the edge of the Newcastle box.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Winning a judgment in Miami federal court doesn’t mean that dispossessed families will get their assets back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
With six minutes of regular time remaining, he dispossessed an opponent, surged forward and coolly fired the ball into the net.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
In the golden age of mobility, the winners were the dispossessed.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025
The woman in the snow was the emissary of a dispossessed tribe.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
But it also ordered local authorities to seal off and protect the area where the stone shaft was found, dispossessing Muslims of a portion of the mosque they had used until this month.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2022
And then came the white settlers and the commercializing of the hot springs, effectively dispossessing them from their own lands, even though some tribes tried to assert their legal claims.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
The U.S. government and its military did the bulk of the dispossessing of Native Americans.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2020
In 1992, Prime Minister Paul Keating made a now-famous speech in the Aboriginal-centric Sydney suburb of Redfern, addressing harsh truths about the often brutal and murderous "dispossessing" of the country's traditional owners.
From BBC ● May 24, 2017
It felt oddly dispossessing, being handed this first legal proof of my personhood: until that moment, it had never occurred to me that proof was required.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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