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expropriate
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    Tres Marias was one of the last haciendas in the South to be expropriated under the agrarian reform.†  (source)
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    Conceivably risking expropriation of entire companies by angry governments.†  (source)
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    Then he pulled on an old pair of blue jeans which he had expropriated from Eric.†  (source)
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    I saw them reaching into my soul, just as they reach into Mulligan's pocket, reaching to expropriate the value of my person, just as they reach to expropriate his wealth-I saw the impertinent malice of mediocrity boastfully holding up its own emptiness as an abyss to be filled by the bodies of its betters-I saw them seeking, just as they seek to feed on Mulligan's money, to feed on those hours when I wrote my music and on that which made me write it, seeking to gnaw their way to self-esteem by extorting from me the admission that they were the goal of my music, so that precisely by reason of my achievement, it would not be they who'd acknowledge my value, but I who would bow to theirs......I†  (source)
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    He had expropriated every job on Yamacraw Island for himself.†  (source)
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    There were a number of colleges—and Ole Miss was one of them—for which the expropriation of the market value of pre-professional football players was something very like a core business.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    She looked in turn at the three men, temporarily expropriating them.†  (source)
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    Just as the mystic is a parasite in matter, who expropriates the wealth created by others-just as he is a parasite in spirit, who plunders the ideas created by others-so he falls below the level of a lunatic who creates his own distortion of reality, to the level of a parasite of lunacy who seeks a distortion created by others.†  (source)
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    I saw them reaching into my soul, just as they reach into Mulligan's pocket, reaching to expropriate the value of my person, just as they reach to expropriate his wealth-I saw the impertinent malice of mediocrity boastfully holding up its own emptiness as an abyss to be filled by the bodies of its betters-I saw them seeking, just as they seek to feed on Mulligan's money, to feed on those hours when I wrote my music and on that which made me write it, seeking to gnaw their way to self-esteem by extorting from me the admission that they were the goal of my music, so that precisely by reason of my achievement, it would not be they who'd acknowledge my value, but I who would bow to theirs......I†  (source)
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    It was a standing joke that he was so keen on subsidizing the revolution that he expropriated himself and organized strikes at his own plants.†  (source)
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    This is plain expropriation.†  (source)
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    The few whose names had lived were really impostors, expropriating the glory of the people as others expropriated its wealth.†  (source)
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    She had thought that industrial production was a value not to be questioned by anyone; she had thought that these men's urge to expropriate the factories of others was their acknowledgment of the factories value.†  (source)
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