evict
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Landlords can also visit at any time, without warning, and evict residents without giving a reason.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
After 10 years, how can she evict him?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
On the few occasions when Trading Standards can shut a business permanently, it's generally by working with landlords, who evict tenants.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
George Kamel: We took a call, it was a couple in their 80s trying to evict their daughter, who was in her 50s and still living at home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The tenants were convinced that if they talked with the community organizer, the executive director of the DHA, stern Carvie Oldham, would evict them.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
She added that before Plymouth evicts any tenants, it works with tenants to get them on a payment plan or other methods to pay off their debt.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Anti-eviction activists stick a banner reading "Sareb evicts" against a wall as they wait for an eviction in Madrid, Spain, October 14, 2016.
From Reuters ● Apr. 5, 2022
“They’re worried, because if someone evicts them, where are they gonna go?”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2020
In a suggestive afterword, the novel’s translator, Naomi Lebowitz, notes how Per “restlessly evicts himself” from all those places which could offer him refuge.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
“I’m just saying, the Beiderman should be a man and show his face to us at least one time before he evicts us. We need an explanation!”
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
It is being forced to, the way a homeowner under water on his mortgage does not so much decide to sell as get evicted by the arithmetic.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
But Palestinians to whom AFP spoke feared being evicted entirely.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
They hired lawyers, but by early this year Ingalls and the others were all evicted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Cronus was reportedly evicted from the MoD over a colleague's arachnophobia the following year.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
The Court ruled in 2002 that, under federal law, public housing tenants can be evicted regardless of whether they had knowledge of or participated in alleged criminal activity.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
He and a team of admins take the role seriously, evicting inactive members—and those who break the rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Under the new law, the grounds for evicting tenants are significantly tightened up.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
“There are no plans or discussions about evicting IDEPSCA,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
Under-16s and parents are divided over the merits of evicting youth from their online lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
“It’s Mr. Beiderman, and he’s not evicting us. He’s not renewing our lease,” Mama said.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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