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- verb Present participle of
uproot . - noun A tearing up.
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Examples
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Please, do not take this wrong, I do support and condone your part in uprooting and exposing those who claim to be other than they are or were.
SHAWN PAUL AKERS 2010
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Well I hope she keeps her seat available if she don't succeed in uprooting this clone of BUSHS 'from the governor's seat.
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The unnamed first-person narrator of the eight linked stories in Love and Obstacles survives a similar uprooting from the Balkans to the Midwest.
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Pakistan should cooperate with India in uprooting this.
Understanding Mumbai, India and terrorism : Law is Cool 2008
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The causes for this uprooting are always different, but the result is the same: the uprooted have lost what they had and where they came from and must start life again as handicapped strangers wherever they are allowed to live.
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The causes for this uprooting are always different, but the result is the same: the uprooted have lost what they had and where they came from and must start life again as handicapped strangers wherever they are allowed to live.
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The causes for this uprooting are always different, but the result is the same: the uprooted have lost what they had and where they came from and must start life again as handicapped strangers wherever they are allowed to live.
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It took her husband time to get used to the idea of uprooting, and she admits her grown children had concerns.
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It took her husband time to get used to the idea of uprooting, and she admits her grown children had concerns.
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Likud rejects the idea of uprooting Jewish settlements or sharing Jerusalem with the Palestinians, she said, adding that "if two states for two peoples was such a magic solution, the Palestinians could have been celebrating their eighth independence day."
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