deprive
Example Sentences
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The CPS says people smugglers are "only in it for the money" and it works to deprive them of their profits "wherever possible".
From BBC • May 18, 2026
And if we deprive gay guys of their annual chance to make Mother’s Day about their personal taste in actresses, God help us all.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
“These conditions are excessive restrictions on his liberty that serve no justifiable purpose and deprive Mr. Allen of dignity while incarcerated.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
Yet Congress has already empowered the SEC to deprive wrongdoers of profits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
But even as he undertook the work, events occurred that were to change its character and indeed to deprive him of his material.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing deprive
The Declaration of Independence
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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Freak the Mighty
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