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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

"This shows that fires not only destroy forests but also deprive animals of shelter and food," Argitoe said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 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

As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

But I saw, up close, how thoroughly the system deprives people from the lifelines of family connection they need.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

His death also deprives Trump of one of his most trusted allies on Capitol Hill.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

Cleage gives the women plenty of substance, though her novelistic mode — more telling than showing — deprives her drama of style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 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

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

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 Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment provides that no person may be deprived of “liberty” without due process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

I know the experiences of deaf women being excluded, being deprived of communication, being deprived of help, being deprived of access, being deprived of so many things.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

She offered, as her part of the project, her willingness to lead, with our three children, the unsatisfactory family life of a household deprived of husband and father.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

It’s also depriving them of the way entry-level workers have long gleaned the expertise to become valuable players later on—by getting in the reps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Though hugely popular with visitors, short-term lodgings are blamed by residents in many popular travel destinations for depriving locals of apartments for long-term rent and pushing up prices.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 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

Dugher, who was recently appointed the UK government's first "music champion", said: "No water is one thing but depriving people of somewhere to sit is another... families are having to sit on the floor."

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

In confrontation, a wizard should trick the Kappa into bowing—if it does so, the water in the hollow of its head will run out, depriving it of all its strength.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling




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