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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dispossess .
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Examples
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(vi) Thus art in one sense 'dispossesses' us of our habitual perception and restores to reality a dimension that necessarily escapes our conceptuality and our control.
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And then Johnson dispossesses him with an excellent, stretching, just-a-tiny-bit-wrong-and-it's-a-penalty challenge.71 mins: City seem better since the arrival of Dzeko, something of a fulcrum for Nasri and Aguero to buzz around.
Manchester City 0 - 1 Liverpool – as it happened | Simon Burnton 2012
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The move is brought to an end as Huth dispossesses Delfouneso, the Villa player windihing himself in the process as he runs into the defender.86 mins Not it's Stoke's turn to win a free-kick in a decent position – certainly well within Huth's range.
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-- Palestinians are to be relegated to isolated powerless cantons under Israel's control before a "final solution" dispossesses or annihilates them; Israel is for Jews alone; after the 1967 war, the Allon Plan affirmed it - named after deputy prime minister Yigal Allon; his goal:
A Short History of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict: Past Is Prologue 2009
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Why, Ahmadinejad asked the UN General Assembly, do the countries of the world sit there while Israel murders and dispossesses the Palestinian people?
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And, of course, this ultimately dispossesses real Americans.
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And, of course, this ultimately dispossesses real Americans.
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And, of course, this ultimately dispossesses real Americans.
All You Need To Know About The Awful Immigration Bill…In Senate Spanish 2006
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Or putting dispossesses under the door because you never actually see him.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Or putting dispossesses under the door because you never actually see him.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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