dislodgement
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Not since World War II has such a massive wave of human dislodgement taken place within Europe.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2022
Some ophthalmologists still insist that the small corneal lenses should not be worn in active sports because of the risk of dislodgement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Defeat could not be risked just now, for that meant a resubjugated South, and then General Washington's dislodgement from Philadelphia and New Jersey, which would be the end of our hopes and our efforts.
From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell
The Filipinos displayed a rare intelligence in the construction of their defences near the Zapote River and its neighbourhood, and but for the employment of artillery their dislodgement therefrom would have been extremely difficult.
From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman
But, if dislodgement were all that was intended, it is hard to understand why Bragg should have organized such a heavy column for a slight task.
From Stone's River The Turning-Point of the Civil War by Wilson J. Vance
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