dispossess

"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

It was said that perhaps the Emperor, in order to break her will, would dispossess her of her vast estates in Siberia.

From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez

Eriksen dispossesses, works it out left where Spurs win another corner, which is rubbish, Eriksen blootering it straight behind.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2018

Rose dispossesses Sissoko to end one such break and passes to Son, who shoots wildly over the bar from 30 yards.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2015

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

The Silky Epeira, on her side, when she is the stronger, dispossesses her belted cousin and devours her. 

From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Though they heard promises that they would find “care centers” in their new locales, many of the dispossessed complained that they got nothing and that their lives became harder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Abdulmejid thus became, uniquely, the caliph of the Turkish Republic and the only caliph not to be sultan—until he, too, was dispossessed and exiled in 1924.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 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

He believes that those at the heart of the protests were the "dispossessed".

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025

Somebody was bound to stay with us, but I didn’t usually get dispossessed.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

It began with a bit of honest grunt, a dispossessing of Araujo in the corner by the twin hunters, Tuur Rommens and Youssef Chermiti, and across the other side of the field they swept.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

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

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