How to Use displacement in a Sentence

displacement

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  • The war has caused the displacement of thousands of people.
  • The conflict in the Middle East is likely to create more displacement.
    — Paul Klein, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • As in most of Hunter’s plays, the characters struggle with loss and displacement in an unforgiving world.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Those more distant from the front lines and without direct experience of displacement may have even more emphatic views.
    — Gerard Toal, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Kakhidze’s drawings about her mother are childlike in their simplicity but narrate powerful stories about the displacement of wartime.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2022
  • This has led to investors turning apartments into posh housing complexes or pricey vacation rentals and the displacement of decades-long residents.
    — Ed Morales, CNN, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The state senator also mentioned the displacement of thousands of people after Hurricane Maria.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
  • For a neighborhood that lived through a brutal history of displacement, much of the controversy will be around what happens to residents during the redevelopment process.
    — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Now the earthquake has caused a new wave of displacement.
    — Bassem Mroue, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The Archimedes screw is a form of positive-displacement pump.
    — Ben Finio, Scientific American, 11 July 2019
  • The displacement increased support for the IRA’s cause.
    — Jessica Stern, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The high-revving mill will have a displacement of 4.0 liters and come equipped with a pair of turbochargers.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 20 May 2024
  • The displacement caused by the war is almost as staggering as the death toll.
    — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The plan could also lead to the displacement of two homes and the removal of 17 businesses.
    — Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2022
  • There are many issues that are at stake in this process [of displacement].
    — Christina Noriega, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The group offered ideas to the city on how to prevent such displacement and felt the way Wright feels now: dismissed.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
  • This displacement in the string then travels down its length.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The vertical displacement of the seafloor would cause a tsunami and push waves toward the coast of Japan.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Tens of thousands have now been confined to squalid displacement camps for a decade.
    — Reuters, CNN, 22 July 2022
  • And no, that truck doesn't roar with big-displacement V-8 thunder.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 July 2021
  • The promise of new jobs doesn’t have to come at the cost of sudden cultural displacement.
    — Ro Khanna, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022
  • It’s got a large displacement Mercedes V 12 but the body is carbon fiber.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2024
  • What are your thoughts on the importance of sharing these stories of displacement and the search for home?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2023
  • In the displacement camps north of Goma, many families, worried about where to get the next meal.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Her displacement confronts us in the novel’s very first words.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
  • The knock-on effect has been a sharp increase in the displacement of Palestinian herders.
    — Gabby Sobelman, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The power plant’s displacement ranged from 1.3 liters to 2.0 liters through the production run.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2024
  • To do that, the two images are melded into one, which is fine for displacement.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The most notable change to this mix in recent years has been the displacement of coal by natural gas.
    — Mark K. Matthews, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Along with the documentation of material destruction and displacement, the movie is a record of psychological warfare, of the effort to demolish morale, suppress energy, break will.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024

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