as in to evict
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Perhaps she is not actually evicted.—
David Wysong,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Sep. 2025 -
Reilly failed to finish in her allotted 1 minute and 30 seconds and was immediately evicted.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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How a state comes to control another land and its people, sometimes slowly dispossessing the natives of their lands, sometimes laying waste to them, sometimes committing genocide.—
Philip Metres
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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The initial loss of communal land places those dispossessed into precarity.—
Taeya Boi-Doku,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Deforce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deforce. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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