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 alleges negligence and the depravation of benefits, based on the emotional or financial support that Hutchins previously provided to younger sister Svetlana Zemko and parents Olga Solovey and Anatolii Androsovych.

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

“They will promote luxury, idleness, and expence, and a general depravation of manners,” Cato had predicted.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

In the seventeenth century, the depravation of meaning took place, in England at least.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene