dispossessed

Example Sentences

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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

Goldblatt’s pictures from before these events are touristic and from afterward elegiac; particularly moving are his portraits of the dispossessed, showing their bitterness and their dignity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

In the golden age of mobility, the winners were the dispossessed.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2025

Now that fires from Pacific Palisades to Altadena to Castaic have finally subsided, thousands upon thousands of residents are returning to a life dispossessed of its least common denominators.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

What he did, on a small scale, showed me how important it is to empower the dispossessed and the disenfranchised in the wake of oppression.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah