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displacement

noun as in dislocation

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Every additional day of delay means more deaths, destruction, and displacement for hundreds of thousands of Gazans.

From BBC

Many fear that widespread weapons, tensions between powerful families and Hamas's grip on power could spiral into scenes resembling civil war in a territory already gripped by displacement, destruction, and fear of further lawlessness.

From BBC

That provision was added to reduce the potential for displacement of renters.

She called the new developments “displacement housing” that doesn’t address the needs of those in remote areas who continue to “flounder in disaster-caused homelessness.”

In part because they have disposed of his February Gaza "Riviera" plan which would have involved the forced displacement of Palestinians.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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