as in depriving
to take something away from
news of a death in the family bereaved them of the unmitigated joy that normally prevails at a wedding
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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday estimated that a shutdown could furlough roughly 750,000 federal workers each day, depriving them of about $400 million in wages daily.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025 -
Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude went to the Met, depriving Alice of a presence that felt alive to her.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Monster has debuted into this very fraught political moment where, despite no evidence showing a link between violence and transness, right-wingers have gone to great pains to paint almost every mass shooter who makes front page news as trans in hopes of stripping trans people of their rights.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
7 Oct. 2025
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But stripping also taught me how to stand firm in the face of that.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Bereaving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bereaving. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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