dispossessed
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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
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
In the golden age of mobility, the winners were the dispossessed.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2025
Now that fires from Pacific Palisades to Altadena to Castaic have finally subsided, thousands upon thousands of residents are returning to a life dispossessed of its least common denominators.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025
It is no longer concerned primarily with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing dispossessed
"Bonne Annee," Vocabulary from the personal essay
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It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime
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Vocabulary from Readings, Unit 3
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