displace
Example Sentences
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More than half a million people in Cambodia have been displaced from their homes by two weeks of deadly border clashes with neighbouring Thailand, Phnom Penh's interior ministry said Sunday.
From Barron's
His job will be to help millions of people displaced in or from Sudan, the Congo, Ukraine, Syria, Venezuela and beyond.
About 175 Muir students and 18 staff members lost their homes, and hundreds more students were temporarily displaced.
From Los Angeles Times
Almost all of the population has been displaced, many of them crammed into makeshift tent camps where they rely on humanitarian aid.
And within hours of arriving in Buffalo Creek and talking to the displaced and demoralized locals, Erikson knew he’d be doing the study himself.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
