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deprive

[dih-prahyv] / dɪˈpraɪv /


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Kingdom, the administration has asked the court, on the emergency docket, to lift an injunction currently preventing it from implementing policies that seek to deprive trans prisoners of much-needed healthcare and social accommodations.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Butts said the measure would deprive the city of an $8-million annual revenue source.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Falling exports deprive Tehran of the hard currency it needs to support the rial and pay for imports, including raw materials for factories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

So while Murrill’s desire to deprive exonerees of money is terrible, Alexander said, her efforts to prevent them from having their names officially cleared are truly reprehensible.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

To deprive her of these fights was to deprive her of all the zest and reasonableness of life.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

“Not building the technology deprives humanity of benefits or simply places AI in the hands of authoritarian powers, while building it too fast is reckless.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

This particularly deprives eastern parts of the country of rainfall and sees a later start to the northern wet season -- though less chance of tropical cyclones.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Perhaps that’s Zhao’s point, that loss deprives us of the people we once were.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

A heart attack deprives heart muscle cells of oxygen and nutrients, causing many of them to die.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2025

This deprives children of much of the freedom and interaction and development that can occur during free time with each other and with their own selves.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

The expansion came at an enormous cost to Native Americans, who were displaced and deprived of their sovereignty, and to Mexicans, whose country lost half its territory.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

In Walton, a Liverpool suburb that ranks as one of Britain’s most deprived neighborhoods, around 1 in 2 households claim welfare, and 1 in 5 working-age residents claim PIP.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Before City -- now embroiled in the biggest financial scandal to hit football's cash-rich Premier League -- moved to the area it was "very deprived" with high rates of unemployment, he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The protests - ignited at the Lycée Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry in the deprived Paris suburb of Créteil - have struck a chord across the country.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Any dead man whom you allow to enter where the blood is will speak to you, and speak the truth; but those deprived will grow remote again and fade.’

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Credit Agricole, which holds 29.3 percent in Banco BPM, said Thursday that it would not back MPS's proposal, depriving the latter of crucial support.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The squeeze is depriving Tehran of its main source of foreign currency, exacerbating the economic crisis as the value of the Iranian rial plunges and inflation runs at more than 80% year-over-year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

“If the intent was not financial gain by depriving others, then it’s almost certainly not illegal — although not everything that is a big problem is illegal,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

In 2023, his team reported that depriving colon cancer cells of arginine caused them to accumulate more mutations.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

Also, if we destroy too much of the natural world, we shall be depriving those who live after us of much beauty.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall


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