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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
displace .
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Examples
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His empathy for the child's fate is something Godwin displaces onto others, who, significantly, are women and children, the children being William's brother and friends.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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As Goldberg recently wrote, reflexive toughness too often displaces seichel, the Yiddish word for wisdom, among Israel's leaders.
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More importantly, once again, your comment merely "displaces" design to an earlier time.
Jesus Creed 2010
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More importantly, once again, your comment merely "displaces" design to an earlier time.
Jesus Creed Jesus Creed Admin 2010
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For several years the BWEA - which lobbies on behalf of wind power firms - claimed that electricity from wind turbines 'displaces' 860 grams of carbon dioxide emission for every kilowatt hour of electricity generated.
The Jawa Report 2009
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However, the 10 states that have allowed undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition have "not experienced a large influx that 'displaces' native-born students or added financial burdens to their educational systems," says one study.
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It kind of displaces the trivial stuff going on in my mind. "
The Seattle Times 2010
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It kind of displaces the trivial stuff going on in my mind. "
The Seattle Times 2010
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And the harder you crack down on Internet movie-downloading, the more attractive you make buying pirate DVDs from criminals on the street -- a virtually zero-risk transaction that directly displaces DVD purchases.
Boing Boing 2009
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Etc. And I agree that in certain circumstances, that variable can work in a way to make mass immigration of cheap labor be a good thing, in the long term, for the workers it displaces.
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