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Recent Examples of privation 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 The policy, while inevitably controversial, was meant to correct for the nearly fifty years of brutal privations that Black South Africans endured under apartheid. Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 1 June 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
  • Some research shows creatine may help with mood disorders, potentially including postpartum depression, in addition to countering sleep deprivation.
    Matt Fuchs, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Haley was found guilty of two counts of deprivation of rights resulting in bodily injury and two counts of tampering with a witness, victim or informant.
    Phil Helsel, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And the noticeable dips also don’t come for the generations of players who would be expecting to play their peak years for England during wartime either — note the lack of games in the 1940s in the earlier graph.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The lack of winning has been exactly the problem during the Chuba years at Carolina.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025

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