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foreclose

verb as in exclude

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verb as in take away the right to redeem a mortgage

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The Debt Recovery Act of 1732, we are told, formalized the “ability of creditors to foreclose on American land”; without it, lending on land would have been almost impossible.

In their mutually reinforcing preparations to annihilate one another, erase the past and foreclose the possibility of future generations, he concluded, “the superpowers have dutifully embraced this legacy…Adolf Hitler lives on.”

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She rides the bus while Henry Rosenzweig, her superintendent at the Jewish Community Center, drives to work in his Cadillac considering which mortgages to foreclose on next.

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“When I started as a youth climate organizer, I was motivated by this sense of anger and rage that my own future was being foreclosed upon by politicians and the fossil fuel industry,” she said.

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Yet we were arming, aiding and abetting the very people who want to foreclose on that possibility.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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