starvation
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"Energy starvation as a coercive tool is incompatible with international human rights norms."
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
"In many places, groundwater extraction, sediment starvation, and rapid urbanization are causing land to sink much faster than previously recognized," Ohenhen said.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026
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
Shipper survived two concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau in occupied Poland, a death march, and the Lodz ghetto - a Jewish ghetto established by the Nazis which was plagued by disease, starvation and forced labour.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026
She was frantic and close to the first stage of starvation.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Vocabulary lists containing starvation
Africa - Middle School
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Africa - High School
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