displace
Example Sentences
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Despite the green yard signs around town that read “Don’t Displace the South End,” the neighborhood is not against growth, said Gregory Davis, managing strategist of the Rainier Beach Action Coalition.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2021
And it forms the subtext of the most important book on China in years: Rush Doshi’s “The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2021
"Displace, displace�they got our position!" he yells, as the troops vacate the open rooftop in a stooped sprint.
From Time Magazine Archive
Displace, dis-plās′, v.t. to put out of place: to disarrange: to remove from a state, office, or dignity.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Displace the imps ingratitude convokes, By love-winged sprites that gratitude evokes; Open thy mind to kindnesses received, And be no longer blindly self-deceived.
From Home Lyrics by Battersby, H. S. (Hannah S.)
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "D"
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"Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began" by Art Spiegelman
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