displacement

Example Sentences

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This market-driven renewal filled vacant lots and derelict sites, reduced blight, converted nonperforming parcels into taxpaying assets and created billions of dollars in new wealth for existing homeowners, with little evidence of widespread displacement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Both imports from China and robot adoption had fairly negative displacement effects that were long-lasting, because they were sudden and the jobs they impacted were concentrated in certain local labor markets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

But the companies are also under scrutiny over how they’re handling AI’s risks, such as child safety, harmful content and job displacement.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

"We can expect displacement sites and cities to flood. Every gap in our response is a gap that armed groups, trafficking networks and despair will fill," Goodstein said.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Both transverse and longitudinal waves cause a displacement of something: air molecules, for example, or the surface of the ocean.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones