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dispossession

NOUN
deprivation
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It said: "Senegal unequivocally rejects this unjustified attempt at dispossession."

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

The issue was morally and legally complex, he said, with compensation for colonial-era crimes, including land dispossession, yet to be addressed.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

One in which a sense of displacement and dispossession is driven by a lost cultural advantage.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2024

Directed by Raoul Peck, “Silver Dollar Road” adapts a 2019 ProPublica feature by Lizzie Presser into an intimate portrait of the family’s forbearance in the face of dispossession.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2023

The second time he looked for her was after the dispossession.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison




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