evict
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After 10 years, how can she evict him?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Durazo has authored successful legislation in Sacramento to close loopholes that make it easier for landlords to evict tenants and introduced legislation to create a tax credit for businesses that hire homeless people.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
About six months later, Vivos sought to evict him, citing a rule against brandishing firearms—a rule added after he signed his lease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Landlords will also no longer be able to evict tenants for complaining about poor conditions.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
She teased him because it was all so pretty and melodic, and "in the same phylum as Hall and Oates," and he threatened to evict her from his room.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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She added that before Plymouth evicts any tenants, it works with tenants to get them on a payment plan or other methods to pay off their debt.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Anti-eviction activists stick a banner reading "Sareb evicts" against a wall as they wait for an eviction in Madrid, Spain, October 14, 2016.
From Reuters ● Apr. 5, 2022
“They’re worried, because if someone evicts them, where are they gonna go?”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2020
In a suggestive afterword, the novel’s translator, Naomi Lebowitz, notes how Per “restlessly evicts himself” from all those places which could offer him refuge.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
“I’m just saying, the Beiderman should be a man and show his face to us at least one time before he evicts us. We need an explanation!”
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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If a rogue AI agent takes over a data center and can’t be evicted except by shutting off the power, will somebody run to a court and call this murder?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
In Massachusetts, Ford took on the case of Vincent Gunning, a Navy veteran and amputee who was being evicted from a home he inherited from his aunt when she died in 2008.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
The makeshift settlement, long earmarked for demolition, was founded by residents evicted in Seoul's redevelopment drive ahead of the 1988 Olympic Games.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Today, Wahhoga Village includes a traditional roundhouse, traditional cedar bark houses known as umachas and the only cabin that the park service didn’t burn when it evicted the remaining families from the site in 1969.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
In April 1933, Jewish professors were abruptly evicted from their positions in state-funded universities.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Baek's home burnt down in a recent blaze, evicting him to a life in temporary shelter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
He and a team of admins take the role seriously, evicting inactive members—and those who break the rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
He says she was working on evicting her son before she left on a midsummer trip to Norway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
“Who is supposed to give permanent housing to elders, disabled and families with children? It is the city and the state. And they are evicting me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
“It’s Mr. Beiderman, and he’s not evicting us. He’s not renewing our lease,” Mama said.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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