dispossess

"Hold On to Me" from Cyprus traces the efforts of an 11-year-old tracking down her estranged father, while documentary "Kikuyu Land" from Kenya examines how powerful outside forces use local corruption to dispossess a people.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

They were visualizing that they would just dispossess them.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2024

Vela’s faint effort to dispossess León of the ball was in vain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2023

Not all alleged witches were poor and landless, however, and sometimes hunts served to dispossess them.

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

Later, when we get another notice, I can say, ‘All right, I will dispossess this woman.’

From Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by Kneeland, George Jackson

He dispossesses Maradona, loses his boot and keeps on running.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2020

But Veretout dispossesses Pugh, and then Pugh fouls the former Nantes player.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2015

But Watson, upset at looking like a haddie, chases back and dispossesses the Portuguese.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2011

Oof, as I was writing that Asamoah Gyan goes close again when he dispossesses the Nigerian defence and tries to lob Vincent Enyeama.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2010

One who dispossesses another of land cannot add the time during which his disseisee has used a way to the period of his own use, while one who purchased can.

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The Kemalists initially bestowed upon Abdulmejid the largely symbolic title of caliph after they dispossessed his cousin of ruling power in 1922.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

With six minutes of regular time remaining, he dispossessed an opponent, surged forward and coolly fired the ball into the net.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

In the golden age of mobility, the winners were the dispossessed.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025

Now that fires from Pacific Palisades to Altadena to Castaic have finally subsided, thousands upon thousands of residents are returning to a life dispossessed of its least common denominators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

After all, they were needy and hungry and despised and dispossessed, and sinners the world over were in the driver’s seat.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

But it also ordered local authorities to seal off and protect the area where the stone shaft was found, dispossessing Muslims of a portion of the mosque they had used until this month.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2022

And then came the white settlers and the commercializing of the hot springs, effectively dispossessing them from their own lands, even though some tribes tried to assert their legal claims.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021

The U.S. government and its military did the bulk of the dispossessing of Native Americans.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2020

In 1992, Prime Minister Paul Keating made a now-famous speech in the Aboriginal-centric Sydney suburb of Redfern, addressing harsh truths about the often brutal and murderous "dispossessing" of the country's traditional owners.

From BBC ● May 24, 2017

It felt oddly dispossessing, being handed this first legal proof of my personhood: until that moment, it had never occurred to me that proof was required.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover