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displacement

[dis-plays-muhnt] / dɪsˈpleɪs mənt /


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About 20km south of Taiz, at the al-Monig displacement camp, families who had fled Mokha and villages hit by fighting were arriving, among hundreds of tents.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Counting only potential displacement is like reviewing just one side of the coin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

This small sideways displacement is the optical equivalent of the Magnus effect that makes a spinning table tennis ball curve through the air.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

But a year into their displacement, Mahmoud couldn’t take being away from his home any longer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

That had been Nicholas’s job for all of his short life, and, as his mother recalled, he did not take displacement well.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

This may not prove true for the displacements AI is beginning to trigger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

This financialization of property led to a wave of speculation, evictions and displacements citywide as developers and landlords began to realize they could get more profit from their holdings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025

Some use donkey carts to haul what possessions have survived after their multiple displacements.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025

U.S. officials voiced concerns over the how a major operation in the city would affect the around 1.3 million Palestinians who were sheltering there after eight months of violence and multiple displacements.

From Salon ● May 30, 2024

Even for Barnard’s Star, the investigation must be painstaking, a search for microscopic displacements of position on photographic plates exposed at the telescope over a period of decades.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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