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"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

An illness or a period of idleness does not suffice to dispossess you; a change of position, even considerable, does not put you to confusion.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart

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

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2015

The second poem dispossesses the first, excavates and re-shapes the same material.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2011

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

A grandson of the first claimant, Robert Bruce, is crowned King of Scotland; he dispossesses the English of a great part of Scotland.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Johnson, Rossiter

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

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

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025

But he was unique among the Democrats in speaking directly to the disaffected and dispossessed middle class.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025

What he did, on a small scale, showed me how important it is to empower the dispossessed and the disenfranchised in the wake of oppression.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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

After winning back-to-back penalties which put them into the attack, Fiji appeared to have scored through Jerry Tuwai but the South African defense pulled off a miraculous save by dispossessing Tuwai over the goal line.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 5, 2017

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