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Recent Examples of privation Since 2022, Russia repeatedly urged China to act quickly to save its economy from inevitable privations stemming from the collapse of its Western market. Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 At first, the complaints from workers who'd escaped -- detailing forced labor, privation and torture -- had seemed extraordinary to Rezende. Terrence McCoy The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2025 In light of the extraordinary privations and mass killing of Gaza’s civilian population in the current war, Hamas’s external leader, Khaled Meshaal, has likened Gaza to Algeria, where independence was achieved only after the death of more than a million civilians. Leila Seurat, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025 But whereas the first generation of Chinese entrepreneurs grew up poor and were happy to wring a livelihood from cheap imitations, today’s tech graduates were spared the privations of their parents and yearn for something more meaningful. Charlie Campbell, Time, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for privation
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Noun
  • 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.
    Todd Longwell, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Deafblind youths need specific skills early in life — learning how to use American Sign Language and assistive technology, for example — to prevent language deprivation.
    Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Other issues brought up at the meeting included ongoing construction, public safety and a lack of sufficient workforce housing.
    Mars King, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025
  • D’Alleva Valas said the biggest barrier for women, though, isn’t a lack of knowledge.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Privation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/privation. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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