dispossess

Example Sentences

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He believes that those at the heart of the protests were the "dispossessed".

From BBC

White Americans were moving into the Southwest in large numbers, dispossessing the Mexican Americans who had been there for generations through the courts, squatting or outright murder.

From Los Angeles Times

He has spent a decade organizing among the poor and dispossessed, including with the Kairos Center and the Poor People’s Campaign.

From Salon

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

From Los Angeles Times

Those who protest are dispossessed of their property, even their land.

From Salon