deprive

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Recent Examples of deprive When due process is respected, the government is made to present the evidence for depriving someone of their freedom. Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025 Rayner’s departure is another headache for the United Kingdom’s increasingly unpopular leader, Keir Starmer, and deprives his cabinet of one of its brightest political stars. Max Foster, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025 Others, such as the owners of the Firefox search engine, asserted that losing the Google contracts would threaten their future survival by depriving them of essential revenue. Michael Liedtke, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025 Although the official mobilization age begins at 25, some fear that the law could deprive the country of potential soldiers. Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deprive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deprive
Verb
  • Just days into his Senate campaign, James Talarico is making his Christian faith a centerpiece of what will be an uphill battle to strip one of Texas’s Senate seats out of the hands of Republicans.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Athletes are often defined by their times, medals, and records, but stripping back their impact to numbers can be reductive, particularly in Fraser-Pryce’s case.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Taylor Swift will likely not be deposed in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's legal battle.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Wayfarer cofounder Steve Sarowitz, CEO Jamey Heath and Baldoni will be deposed later this month.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Beyond the considerable issue of adequately defending the potent Eagles offense, the Chiefs most obviously will seek to better protect Mahomes — who was sacked six times and pressured 16 times without the Eagles blitzing once.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
  • He's also been sacked three times (3) while rushing for a total of negative-three yards on 13 carries (including sacks).
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Despite lacking any legal education or experience, Routh dismissed his lawyers earlier this year and intends to defend himself at trial.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • When retail loses money, it’s often dismissed as inexperience.
    Anmol Verma, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Storms approaching the region start to reach cooler waters that aren't warm enough to fuel a hurricane and tradewinds in the region can topple a storm's cloud structure.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Minneapolis will approach 90 degrees Sunday while Memphis could topple its record daily high of 98 degrees on Monday.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Deprive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deprive. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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