starve
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Environmental advocates contend it would starve the Delta and threaten fish already in severe decline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Buybacks aren’t accounting trickery, and they don’t starve companies of capital unless done recklessly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Joshua Kushner and his family, one imagines, will not starve.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
However, not only do these chemicals affect the bees directly, they can also remove important plants that they rely on for food causing them to starve.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
All the while, there's a fierce hollowness gnawing at my insides and I try to imagine a life of this, watching fine people eat while I nigh on starve to death.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
She starves herself for her cause, crosses oceans and tills land to create the utopia that she believes is possible.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
And as the government shutdown starves the markets of official data, any individual announcement from a company can take on more meaning.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2025
When society fails to honor difference, it starves itself of innovation, empathy and depth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
It isolates the cell from the surrounding tissue and essentially starves it of nutrients.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
Since we are all supposed to be equal, if one person starves, then all should starve.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
For Delhi, which is starved of foreign investment, the Japanese money comes at a crucial time.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Investors are starved for information in a new world of “terse” communication from the central bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The push has made progress that few thought possible back in 2022, when Huawei was starved of U.S. technology and Chinese AI companies depended almost entirely on Nvidia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
But the lack of braking points means the cars will be energy starved this year, so will be running with not much more than half the engines' full power at key points of the track.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
While agricultural workers starved in Ukraine, record numbers of laborers produced factory goods.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Simultaneously, his gamble on a self-owned Pac-12 Network failed to land a DirecTV deal, starving member schools of cash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"It's causing huge environmental problems... we have more food in the world, but there are more than ever people who are malnourished and starving," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The private-equity industry is starving for more dealmaking activity, with a massive backlog of unsold portfolio companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
That’s necessary magic in an age that’s starving for it.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
It’s hard not to feel guilty when starving people bring you food.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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