displacement
Example Sentences
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At one displacement camp on the outskirts of Beirut, hundreds of people got ready for Iftar - a meal eaten at sunset to break the Ramadan fast - on Tuesday evening.
From BBC
Its report said displacement of just 10 percent of Iran's population would rival the largest refugee flows of recent decades, albeit cautioning that the scenario remained "highly speculative".
From Barron's
"We were shocked and we quickly packed and woke up the kids and got in the car. Now we're stuck on blocked roads because of the massive displacement from the south."
From BBC
Between 2017 and 2020 I published several essays and a memoir about my mother’s imprisonment and our escape from the Islamic Republic, and the displacement that followed.
He is deeply worried about “labor displacement” but overall concludes it’s just too early to say whether AI is “a fad or an illusion.”
From MarketWatch
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