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verb

past tense of dislodge

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Recent Examples of dislodged
Verb
Colorado 96 and Colorado 165 at McKenzie Junction in Custer County were closed Sunday afternoon after large slabs of earth dislodged and tumbled onto the roadway. Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 3 Jan. 2025 Conley immediately performed the Heimlich maneuver — also known as abdominal thrusts — on Isaiah Rodriguez, which dislodged the grape. Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024 The victim only became dislodged from the vehicle after Behling sideswiped a parked car. Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 20 Dec. 2024 The animal tumbled down a slope into the man, who was also struck by rocks dislodged by the bear. CBS News, 17 Dec. 2024 First, a solid pick from Towns in the paint; then, a handoff screen from Hart; and finally, another mammoth screen from Towns that dislodged Suggs entirely. Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 16 Dec. 2024 Carlos Sainz dislodged a manhole cover during the first practice. Melinda Sheckells, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024 Then, power lines and trees dislodged Megan and her father. Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024 Her books are full of people who have been dislodged from one place and set down in another. James Marcus, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dislodged
Adjective
  • But the detached garage and a guest cottage were destroyed, as were all but three or four of the 20 or so houses on their block near the Altadena Golf Course.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Steps lead down to a heated swimming pool, and elsewhere on the property are fruit-bearing citrus trees, raised garden boxes and an original detached bomb shelter.
    Angela Serratore, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Switching to Bournemouth removed Adams from the frenzy and bright lights that surround Leeds.
    Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Though once common in the Atlantic, gray whales were hunted and removed from that ocean about 300 years ago—and only five or so have been seen in the last 15 years there and in the Mediterranean.
    Danielle Hall, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Historically, bitcoin has pulled back as much as 80% from the cycle peak.
    Tanaya Macheel, CNBC, 4 Jan. 2025
  • But David kept fighting and pulled fire away from landing Medevac helicopters, getting evacuated himself after the last helicopter landed.
    JOSH BOAK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The filing also details various financial agreements, including loan agreements with Simplot Taiwan Inc. and Trung Doan, and amendments to convertible unsecured promissory notes. SemiLEDs does not anticipate cash dividend payments to common stockholders in the near future.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
  • This increase is largely due to employees working on personal devices, connecting to unsecured Wi-Fi networks, or falling victim to phishing attempts.
    AllBusiness, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Belichick, always an insular coach, further withdrew during that season amid his team’s struggles, according to team sources with knowledge of the situation.
    Chad Graff, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • In response, Hungary withdrew its stake from the bank, marking a rare concession in its complex balancing act between East and West.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The blaze lit up the sky on Summer Street in the North Shore community in a fire in an unattached two-story garage with a long driveway, posing another challenge, according to social media posts.
    Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Only one of Grande’s quartet of current appearances on the Official Streaming list is unattached to Wicked.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Anyone who has worked on a car, tended a garden, or written a computer program can tell you that systems are complicated, and always leaking, dying, or coming undone.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Boho is fun and pleasing to look at—but just a little undone.
    Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Fantasmas, meanwhile, feels totally unbound by color.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
  • But such revelry for Cuba’s outcasts, for the first time allowed to be unbound, comes at an unthinkable price.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024

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“Dislodged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dislodged. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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