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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

The satrap of Syria had a mind to dispossess me of it; but I was too rich to have any thing to fear.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

Milner floats the ball into the penalty area and Villarreal embark on a lightning fast counter-attack that comes to an abrupt end when Dejan Lovren dispossesses Denis Suarez with a fine challenge.

From The Guardian ● May 5, 2016

Rose dispossesses Sissoko to end one such break and passes to Son, who shoots wildly over the bar from 30 yards.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 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

In marriage, the man offers love for love and hand for hand, but what is the consideration for those personal rights of which he dispossesses her?

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Hip-hop has become the global language of resistance — the musical form through which the dispossessed and disenfranchised articulate grievance and assert dignity,” Singh said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

The Kemalists initially bestowed upon Abdulmejid the largely symbolic title of caliph after they dispossessed his cousin of ruling power in 1922.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 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

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