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verb

past tense of deprive

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In London, where a substantial majority of pupils are now from an immigrant background, many from deprived families, the city outperforms the country as a whole by a considerable margin. Jonathan Portes, TIME, 27 Apr. 2024 The highest MMRs and largest increases are in minoritized, working class, or deprived populations. Arline Geronimus, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024 Meanwhile, 28% of the 18-year-olds who enrolled in university this year come from deprived areas, compared with just under 18% in 2013. Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023 Instead of college scholarships and pre-Olympic programs, the big talents have, more often than not, been drawn from society’s most deprived, where trauma and lack of opportunity bake in a capacity to persist through pain. Ben Wyatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for deprived 

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“Deprived.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deprived. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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