dislodge
Example Sentences
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Inertia is the easiest and most likely choice in any polity, and sometimes not even a crisis is enough to dislodge a dysfunctional status quo.
He rubbed the toe of his tennis shoe into the dusty trail, dislodging a stone.
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"Yes, I would. Sometimes I put an invisible hair across the cover, and if the hair is dislodged I know a spy has been into my notebook."
From Literature
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“Maybe the water dislodged it. This is a great chance.”
From Literature
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No one can say whether the AI firm will actually dislodge the incumbent providers, several of which already claim to be powering their services with AI.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.