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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".

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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.

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He has spent a decade organizing among the poor and dispossessed, including with the Kairos Center and the Poor People’s Campaign.

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But he was unique among the Democrats in speaking directly to the disaffected and dispossessed middle class.

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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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