displaced
Example Sentences
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Torrential rains sparked historic flooding in southern Brazil in April and May of that year, leaving nearly 200 people dead, 500,000 more displaced and massive damages.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
In Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries, ordinary civilians are paying the price for the renewed fighting, with more than 200,000 people displaced since July, according to UN data.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Yet their actions suggest that the competitive frenzy to secure market share has displaced rational assessment of long-term social benefit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Most of Gaza is in ruins, with nearly all the 2.1 million population still displaced amid dire humanitarian conditions.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
In this way they could justify treating the Indigenous peoples in much the same ways they had been treated when the nobles displaced them from the commons.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
