dispossess
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"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
Disseize, dis-sēz′, v.t. to deprive of seizin or possession of an estate of freehold: to dispossess wrongfully.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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