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displacement

[dis-plays-muhnt] / dɪsˈpleɪs mənt /


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About 20km south of Taiz, at the al-Monig displacement camp, families who had fled Mokha and villages hit by fighting were arriving, among hundreds of tents.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

In “Ausländer: One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile,” Mr. Moritz traces the generational arc of trauma and displacement that has also encompassed his own life experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Measuring the displacement would allow the researchers to determine how gravity acts on the muon.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

This is a city where neighborhood displacement — whether by gentrification, government or natural disaster — is as commonplace and messy as the bloom of jacarandas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

He was marked early on by his orphaned state, his displacement, his zealous skeptical mind, his aloneness.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

"We have not seen displacements like this for the last two decades," she added.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Economists cite several explanations, including contraction in the entertainment industry, displacements caused by artificial intelligence and overall uncertainty in the national economy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2025

This may not prove true for the displacements AI is beginning to trigger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

Many of these issues are destined to continue or even get worse, because climate events, food insecurity and displacements are likely to drive more conflict.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2024

Even for Barnard’s Star, the investigation must be painstaking, a search for microscopic displacements of position on photographic plates exposed at the telescope over a period of decades.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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