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- noun Plural form of
uprooting .
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Examples
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The colossal uprootings and transformations of the industrial and agrarian revolutions left the Scots with a heavy distrust of social experiment.
Let Scotland be a sovereign, mature nation and England benefits too | Neal Ascherson 2012
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Obama explains his decision to root himself in Chicago by reflecting on the sequential uprootings of his grandparents and mother.
David Remnick's 'The Bridge' Delves Deep Into Barack Obama's Presidency (New York Review) 2010
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Obama explains his decision to root himself in Chicago by reflecting on the sequential uprootings of his grandparents and mother.
David Remnick's 'The Bridge' Delves Deep Into Barack Obama's Presidency (New York Review) 2010
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Actually the growth will be felt in civil uprootings and uprisings, the result of famines, drought and disease.
OpEdNews - Diary: The Cost of Climate Change Present and Future 2009
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The Partch family moved to Arizona when Harry was 2, the first of many uprootings in his eccentric, hoboesque life.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Forty-Five 2009
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It's activities now include resistance to settlements, land expropriation, fruit and olive tree uprootings and other crop destruction, bypass road construction, policies of "closure" and "separation," denial of civil and human rights, and all other elements of repression of a people under occupation it wants to help end to achieve an equitable and sustainable peace only possible once Palestinians have their own sovereign integral independent state.
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It's activities now include resistance to settlements, land expropriation, fruit and olive tree uprootings and other crop destruction, bypass road construction, policies of "closure" and "separation," denial of civil and human rights, and all other elements of repression of a people under occupation it wants to help end to achieve an equitable and sustainable peace only possible once Palestinians have their own sovereign integral independent state.
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I once asked a distinguished author whose domestic uprootings were so frequent as to cause remark even in
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The most interesting object however, is, the orange-tree planted by Francis I. in 1421, which is in full health and bearing: alas! we halted beside it, and thought of the wonderful revolutions and uprootings that France had suffered since this tree was planted.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829 Various
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I saw that my whole school life would be punctuated by these violent uprootings, that the alternation of term-time and holidays would make it impossible for me to change life into a comfortable habit, and that even to the end of my school-days it would be necessary for me to preserve my new-found courage.
The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton
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