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dispossess
verb as in deprive
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He believes that those at the heart of the protests were the "dispossessed".
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.
He has spent a decade organizing among the poor and dispossessed, including with the Kairos Center and the Poor People’s Campaign.
But he was unique among the Democrats in speaking directly to the disaffected and dispossessed middle class.
Those who protest are dispossessed of their property, even their land.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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