At seventy, Padura is a voice of a generation that endured a long war in Angola and the privations that followed the Soviet collapse.
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Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
Since 2022, Russia repeatedly urged China to act quickly to save its economy from inevitable privations stemming from the collapse of its Western market.
But Def Leppard is, at its core, a brotherhood of working-class kids from the British Isles, raised by parents who lived through the deprivations of World War II.
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Todd Longwell,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
Perhaps, partially, though not because of any physical deprivations.
—
Jane Ciabattari
August 19,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
Prisoners are not allowed to keep money behind bars, but cash can be provided by family members to a commissary fund used to buy food, toiletries and other minor needs, according to the Prison Fellowship.
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