famine
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“It’s like you have a famine, and you’ve only got food for 15% of the people,” Culhane said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Mamdani continued: “These are people who fled earthquakes, famine, war and political violence,” he said in a statement.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Some say Churchill's policies contributed to the famine.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
He was a young economics professor at Chittagong University in Bangladesh visiting a village during a nationwide famine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
The Earth was a planet, as Copernicus had said, and it was entirely obvious to Kepler that the Earth, wracked by wars, pestilence, famine and unhappiness, fell short of perfection.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
It asserted that widespread famines and mass starvation would doom huge swaths of mankind because the world’s population was growing too rapidly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
In extreme conditions such as droughts, famines or freezing temperatures, animals activate resilience programs like hibernation instead of investing energy in reproduction.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
Only four previous famines have been classified by the IPC since it was established in 2004, the most recent in Sudan in 2024.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
With powerful statistical models, the researchers analyzed 30,000 years of archaeological records, tracing the impact of wars, famines and climate change.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2024
She was frightened by the BBC famines and television wars that she encountered while she channel surfed.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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