dispossessed

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With six minutes of regular time remaining, he dispossessed an opponent, surged forward and coolly fired the ball into the net.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

Goldblatt’s pictures from before these events are touristic and from afterward elegiac; particularly moving are his portraits of the dispossessed, showing their bitterness and their dignity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

But he was unique among the Democrats in speaking directly to the disaffected and dispossessed middle class.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2025

In the golden age of mobility, the winners were the dispossessed.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2025

Most of those tribelets were killed off or dispossessed during or soon after the California gold rush of 1848-52, when large numbers of immigrants flooded the state.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond