the dispossessed

noun

: people whose land, possessions, etc., have been taken away from them
helping the poor and the dispossessed

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These weren't movements of the dispossessed, but of the downwardly mobile—overeducated and politically alienated. — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025 His was a papacy focused on the margins, on the dispossessed, and the most vulnerable. — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2025 That was what Jesus was about: service to the poor and the dispossessed. — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025 October 7 shattered this paradigm, as the state-of-the-art nation was briefly overthrown by the crude weapons of the dispossessed. — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 30 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for the dispossessed

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