dispossessed

Example Sentences

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“There are still young people that are very much connected or feel rooted in the community even though they’ve been dispossessed, and that is a whole other sense of trauma,” Garrett said at the time.

From Seattle Times

Close-knit communities with relatively self-sufficient economies disintegrated, leaving the newly dispossessed with wage work as the only option for survival.

From Scientific American

He can't make the recovery runs he used to and on the odd occasion he is dispossessed or someone gets a march on him.

From BBC

By the best possible reading — the absolute best — Springer’s self-named show was about the aggrieved, the wronged and the dispossessed, a grungy cohort that television had forever tried to ignore until his ilk came along.

From Washington Post

Both sides of his family had been oppressed under Stalin; his grandfather on his father’s side was executed in 1939, and his mother and her family were dispossessed and deported from Poland in 1945.

From New York Times