depravation

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One report says that sleep depravation costs the UK up to £40bn a year in lost productivity.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2023

The new lawsuit against Baldwin, though filed in California, relies on provisions of New Mexico state law regarding the depravation of benefits, also known as “loss of consortium.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2023

Wallenda, who has made successful walks across Niagara Falls and above Times Square, said he has been training with an oxygen depravation mask to mirror the conditions above the volcano.

From Reuters • Feb. 27, 2020

In a sublime study of gradual depravation, Arquette transforms into a deeply unmotivated prison employee who is hardened by her own unhappiness, succumbing to both desire and resentment.

From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2018

See Suicer, in voce.86.The text of Eusebius seems to have experienced some disarrangement and depravation here.87.Mai,

From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by Burgon, John William