dislodgment
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“These successful operations have culminated in the dislodgment of terrorists from towns and communities in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno states,” military spokesman Chris Olukolade told the BBC.
From Time ● Mar. 27, 2015
Stubbornly resisting all efforts at dislodgment is the brownstone mid-Victorian Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Against the strong but supply-vulnerable Italian forces in the Duke's domain, Britain planned not a campaign of forcible dislodgment but one of attrition from without and harassment from within.
From Time Magazine Archive
McWhinnie, in The Lancet, records a case of dislodgment of an enlarged liver from tight lacing.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Often the dislodgment of a block of ice is instantaneous, and not even a cannon-ball or thunderbolt could be more rapid in its descent.
From The Field of Ice Part II of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
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