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uproot

[uhp-root, -root] / ʌpˈrut, -ˈrʊt /


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Once a false image takes hold, it is nearly impossible to uproot, and the flood of fabricated content has a corrosive effect: It makes us doubt everything.

From Salon • May 24, 2026

Efforts to help the crisis-hit industry include the government's latest 130-million-euro "arrachage" fund that opened last Friday, offering subsidies to loss-making owners to uproot their vines.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

An estimated 75,000—some 2.5% of the population—had no desire to live within an independent republic that held memories of “terror, disillusion, and death,” preferring to uproot themselves to Canada and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Batty did not uproot during his time at Blackburn, or even when he made the switch to Newcastle in 1996.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

The job offered him greater pay and meant that he would no longer need to uproot his wife and young boys.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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