1
as in to evict
to end the occupancy or possession of
unable to make their mortgage payments, they were summarily divested of their house
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as in to rid
to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers
the former CEO has divested himself of most of his responsibilities but will continue to work with the company as a consultant
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as in to deprive
to take something away from
he was divested of the boxing title when the fraud was uncovered
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Recent Examples of divest
The legislation gave ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company, until Jan. 19, 2025 to divest TikTok.
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Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
At the end of last year, several businesses, including Walmart, Boeing, Lowe's, and Ford Motor Co., began divesting from their diversity efforts, including commitments to stop participating in Pride parades and diversity surveys.
—Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 25 Jan. 2025
In March 2024, the United States House of Representatives passed H.R. 7521, which would ban TikTok completely unless it is divested from ByteDance, a Chinese company.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 22 Jan. 2025
The law gave ByteDance 270 days — until Jan. 19 — to divest from TikTok.
—Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
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Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
At the end of last year, several businesses, including Walmart, Boeing, Lowe's, and Ford Motor Co., began divesting from their diversity efforts, including commitments to stop participating in Pride parades and diversity surveys.
—Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 25 Jan. 2025
In March 2024, the United States House of Representatives passed H.R. 7521, which would ban TikTok completely unless it is divested from ByteDance, a Chinese company.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 22 Jan. 2025
The law gave ByteDance 270 days — until Jan. 19 — to divest from TikTok.
—Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
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No president ever proposed anything so unhinged as Donald Trump’s brutal fantasy of evicting some 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza and turning it into a massive real estate deal.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2025
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They were allegedly left abandoned in an apartment when their family were evicted.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
8 Feb. 2025
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Starting in late 2022, the Biden Administration imposed several rounds of export controls on China in an effort to deprive the country of technology that Washington fears Beijing could use to make the next generation of weapons and AI systems.—
John Liu,
CNN,
10 Feb. 2025
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Together, these provisions could be used to force a company like Apple, that would never build a backdoor into its products, to publicly withdraw critical security features from the UK market, depriving UK users of these protections.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
7 Feb. 2025
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South Africa’s colonial regimes were particularly brutal in dispossessing Black people of their land and forcefully removing them.—
Michael D. Shear,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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Arsenal, looking to keep the pressure on Liverpool at the top of the Premier League table, got off to a fast start when Manuel Akanji was dispossessed close to the Manchester City goal, allowing Kai Havertz to tee up Martin Ødegaard for the game’s first goal inside two minutes.—
George Ramsay,
CNN,
3 Feb. 2025
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Among bacteria, small genomes relieve organisms of the pressure of maintaining bulky DNA, but this state also requires them to scavenge many basic nutrients and metabolites from their neighbors.—
Veronique Greenwood,
WIRED,
9 Feb. 2025
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Without his daily inhaler to help control the symptoms of asthma, the suit says Cole’s breathing deteriorated over the next five days, forcing Cole to rely on his rescue inhaler to relieve his symptoms.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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This proposal, which amounts to a call for ethnic cleansing, would strip the Palestinians of even more land and undoubtedly incite a violent response from Hamas.—
Mike Quigley,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2025
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Ionized gas is typically found in active star-forming regions, where radiation from young, hot stars strips electrons from atoms This makes the location of J0624-6948 and J0614-7251 particularly unexpected.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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That’s a central difference between today’s political reality and the scene that faced organizers of the Newsom recall campaign that failed by a wide margin to oust him in 2021.—
Thomas D. Elias,
Orange County Register,
14 Feb. 2025
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In the eight year interim since Rocca was ousted Taormina has seen several upheavals and struggled to find its footing amid a succession of different artistic directors, including former Venice chief Marco Mueller who was hired to take the reins late in the game last year.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Divest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divest. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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