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uproot

[uhp-root, -root] / ʌpˈrut, -ˈrʊt /


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Some 180 applications were received for the role of physiologist alone, with Rachel McCormick willing to uproot her life from Australia to take the job.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Once a false image takes hold, it is nearly impossible to uproot, and the flood of fabricated content has a corrosive effect: It makes us doubt everything.

From Salon May 24, 2026

Efforts to help the crisis-hit industry include the government's latest 130-million-euro "arrachage" fund that opened last Friday, offering subsidies to loss-making owners to uproot their vines.

From Barron's Feb. 10, 2026

Most are followed by restorations, social consciousness being harder to uproot than political structures.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 16, 2025

There was a big task pressing in on us, a big responsibility: to shoulder some power, to uproot the dictator’s thugs, to be effective and thorough with-out becoming vengeful.

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple

Owners say they are easy to carry and set up and are safer than umbrellas, which can cause injuries or death when the wind uproots them.

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

Many trees in the forest were flattened to the ground due to wetter springs and high-intensity storms, which uproots them.

From Washington Post Apr. 16, 2022

It definitely is a very important topic, and something that needs to be addressed in a way that uproots all of it.

From The Verge Mar. 29, 2022

Mara, a 37-year-old grieving from the loss of her child during a stillbirth, uproots her life and moves to a seaside town, where she works at a wine shop and slowly learns to heal.

From New York Times Jan. 14, 2022

He knew now that it was victory; he could feel it in the air—the panic, the wild, raging, mad tornado that uproots all things on its way.

From A Captain of Industry Being the Story of a Civilized Man by Upton Sinclair

A core conviction, she wrote in “Outrageous Acts,” was “that sex and race discrimination are so pragmatically linked and anthropologically interdependent that one cannot be successfully uprooted without taking on the other.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Yemen's years-long civil conflict killed tens of thousands of people, uprooted millions and drove the country to the brink of famine before a 2022 truce restored relative calm.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

At least three former colleagues of mine have uprooted their families, changed jobs and moved overseas within the last few years.

From Salon May 31, 2026

And how much does she dedicate to Nothingness Flats, her home in the Mojave Desert that’s being uprooted and flattened for the sake of a massive solar array?

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

A lone Cyclops swept the street with an uprooted oak tree.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

“The uprooting of the human being was a declared program.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

That sustained progress over recent seasons has come since she made another significant decision, uprooting her life to the north Italian city of Padua to be coached by Marco Airale.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Ours is an age not only of cultural backsliding but also of people uprooting themselves for the sake of safety and reinvention.

From Salon May 20, 2026

Her neighbour, 71-year-old Kusum Mishra, who arrived 50 years ago, also dismissed the "petty compensation" offered, complaining that "they are uprooting us and destroying our lives."

From Barron's May 18, 2026

The newscaster on the television reported on the changing times and the uprooting of the status quo.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed




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