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expropriation

NOUN
seizure
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District Judge Loretta Preska, who determined that two YPF shareholders were owed compensation for the 2012 expropriation.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

Refineries and other assets of foreign companies were seized; the government paid Exxon, Mobil, Gulf and Shell $1 billion each for the expropriation, well below the value of their holdings.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2025

It proposes to address hierarchical orders, social rank, slavery, colonialism, expropriation and the interweaving of mind and body, matter and spirit.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 22, 2025

“The Americans forced one of the most entrepreneurial countries on Earth into an expropriation lite,” says Dimitar Lilkov, a senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.

From Barron's Nov. 6, 2025

The expropriation commenced in 1888 and continued up to end of 1892, and the prices paid were far in excess of estimate.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.




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