expropriation
Example Sentences
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Bill Ackman, the vociferous hedge-fund manager based in New York, called the California union’s proposal “an expropriation of private property” in a post on X this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Refineries and other assets of foreign companies were seized; the government paid Exxon, Mobil, Gulf and Shell $1 billion each for the expropriation, well below the value of their holdings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
“The Americans forced one of the most entrepreneurial countries on Earth into an expropriation lite,” says Dimitar Lilkov, a senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025
She also opposes the expropriation plans and wants to stay living in the same place.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
The revolutionary bourgeoisie has at one place and time proceeded to brutal expropriation without compensation, at another to the buying out of feudal servitudes.
From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Orth, Samuel P.
