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displace
verb as in move, remove from normal place
verb as in remove from position of responsibility
Example Sentences
At a plaza at the complex, people manning a local relief effort collected donations and distributed essentials such as clothing, bedding, diapers and food to residents displaced by the fire.
She and her family are still displaced from their Altadena home.
As U.S. expansion displaced indigenous nations, Native peoples entered wage labor, in ways that often extended traditional work.
Media fragmentation and the constant flow of information are presented as making it harder for scandals to reach critical mass, as new controversies quickly displace previous ones.
The cyclone has become Sri Lanka's deadliest natural disaster since 2017, when flooding and landslides claimed more than 200 lives and displaced hundreds of thousands.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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