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
On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order giving the app and ByteDance until April 5 to sell TikTok or divest it.
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Steve Kopack, NBC news, 26 Mar. 2025
Those concerns were central to Congress’s push last year to pass legislation requiring the app’s parent company ByteDance to divest or face a U.S. ban.
—Julia Shapero, The Hill, 26 Mar. 2025
Oil super-majors are refocusing on oil and gas exploration and production along with divesting from renewable energy, as exemplified by the U-turn by BP on this subject.
—Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Fueled by outrage over Israel’s war in Gaza, students pushed for their universities to divest from companies linked to the Israeli government.
—Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2025
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Steve Kopack, NBC news, 26 Mar. 2025
Those concerns were central to Congress’s push last year to pass legislation requiring the app’s parent company ByteDance to divest or face a U.S. ban.
—Julia Shapero, The Hill, 26 Mar. 2025
Oil super-majors are refocusing on oil and gas exploration and production along with divesting from renewable energy, as exemplified by the U-turn by BP on this subject.
—Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Fueled by outrage over Israel’s war in Gaza, students pushed for their universities to divest from companies linked to the Israeli government.
—Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for divest
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Part of it is to demote Jackson, the President who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation and signed legislation that forcibly evicted thousands of Native Americans from their land.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2025
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When the theater refused to budge, the mayor threatened to evict them.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Mar. 2025
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The nightmare lasted for one week as the group restrained the man while beating him with a metal bat and depriving him of food and water, according to court documents.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Jones also said a change of venue would deprive him and the families of the other victims of the opportunity of watching the trial in person.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2025
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The withdrawing forces had tried to dispossess the Sámi people of their traditions; just one method for this was a ban on the ládjogahpir, a red hat worn by Sámi women, within Christian churches.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The writing was on the wall after only four minutes when two Brazil defenders somehow failed to dispossess Julián Álvarez in the box, allowing the ball to bounce through for the Atlético Madrid striker to poke home the opener.—
Matias Grez,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2025
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Rather than rising up and killing its former masters, Murderbot just goes about performing its security work, relieving the boredom by watching a lot of entertainment media.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
9 Apr. 2025
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Trump rejected a 90-day pause in tariffs set to take effect on Wednesday, a bit of rumor that briefly relieved agitated financial markets before it was promptly dismissed by the White House as fiction.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
8 Apr. 2025
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His Jesus was a man of moral principles stripped of higher powers.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2025
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As the case continues, the court will also weigh a decision to strip protections from Haitians.—
Rebecca Beitsch,
The Hill,
1 Apr. 2025
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South Korean court upholds impeachment South Korea’s Constitutional Court Friday upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, ousting him from office.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2025
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The last time a sitting CMC vice chair was purged was more than three decades ago, when then-Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang was ousted for sympathizing with student protesters in the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Divest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divest. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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