dispossess
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"Hold On to Me" from Cyprus traces the efforts of an 11-year-old tracking down her estranged father, while documentary "Kikuyu Land" from Kenya examines how powerful outside forces use local corruption to dispossess a people.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
They were visualizing that they would just dispossess them.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2024
But Leeds upped their game in the second half as Piroe had a shot well saved by Hermansen, while James Justin did well to dispossess Summerville in a dangerous area soon after.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2023
Vela’s faint effort to dispossess León of the ball was in vain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
He fell crazily in love with the woman he had come to dispossess.
From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune
He dispossesses Maradona, loses his boot and keeps on running.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2020
Milner floats the ball into the penalty area and Villarreal embark on a lightning fast counter-attack that comes to an abrupt end when Dejan Lovren dispossesses Denis Suarez with a fine challenge.
From The Guardian ● May 5, 2016
But Watson, upset at looking like a haddie, chases back and dispossesses the Portuguese.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2011
Oof, as I was writing that Asamoah Gyan goes close again when he dispossesses the Nigerian defence and tries to lob Vincent Enyeama.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2010
He dispossesses his begetter of all possibility of replacement, and grasps the sceptre of the world.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
“Hip-hop has become the global language of resistance — the musical form through which the dispossessed and disenfranchised articulate grievance and assert dignity,” Singh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
Abdulmejid thus became, uniquely, the caliph of the Turkish Republic and the only caliph not to be sultan—until he, too, was dispossessed and exiled in 1924.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
With six minutes of regular time remaining, he dispossessed an opponent, surged forward and coolly fired the ball into the net.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
This is because, through the experiences of dispossessed patients, the world’s conflicts fall sharply into focus.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
After all, they were needy and hungry and despised and dispossessed, and sinners the world over were in the driver’s seat.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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The way the defender slowed Antonio down and then stood him up before dispossessing him wasn't merely impressive, it was defending of the highest quality.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2024
But it also ordered local authorities to seal off and protect the area where the stone shaft was found, dispossessing Muslims of a portion of the mosque they had used until this month.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2022
And then came the white settlers and the commercializing of the hot springs, effectively dispossessing them from their own lands, even though some tribes tried to assert their legal claims.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
The U.S. government and its military did the bulk of the dispossessing of Native Americans.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2020
It felt oddly dispossessing, being handed this first legal proof of my personhood: until that moment, it had never occurred to me that proof was required.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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