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

Vela’s faint effort to dispossess León of the ball was in vain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2023

Not all alleged witches were poor and landless, however, and sometimes hunts served to dispossess them.

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

They lived off the land, but at the same time they did not dispossess the Indians from their hunting grounds.

From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Robert F. Murphy

Ter Stegen dithers when he should have put his foot through the ball, Ruben Castro dispossesses him and Dumisi tries a shot from way out on the left, but it goes wide.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2017

But Veretout dispossesses Pugh, and then Pugh fouls the former Nantes player.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 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

After curtailing the rights of the reason in the theoretical field in favor of custom and instinct, he dispossesses her also in the sphere of practice.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

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

Swede Elanga dispossessed Fulham defender Ryan Sessegnon before feeding Osula out on the right.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025

He has spent a decade organizing among the poor and dispossessed, including with the Kairos Center and the Poor People’s Campaign.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2025

After all, they were needy and hungry and despised and dispossessed, and sinners the world over were in the driver’s seat.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

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