starvation

In the predominantly Kurdish city of Qamishli, hundreds of people marched on Tuesday carrying placards reading: "No to the starvation policy" and "No to the increase in fuel prices."

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Yang Il-cheol, 31, who defected from North Korea last year, said citizens are focused on survival, having lived through fuel outages, starvation and chronic shortages of fertilizer, rice and electricity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

From an evolutionary perspective, conserving energy during periods of intense physical activity probably protected our ancestors from starvation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

F1's governing body the FIA was warned repeatedly in the years leading up to 2026 that this energy starvation issue would happen.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The loss of pasture land to raiding neighbours could mean the difference between subsistence and starvation, so there was much less room for compromise.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Still bearing the scars from when she almost died, she went off the grid, calling herself Emma and taking jobs that were the “stuff that fresh starts and soul starvations were made of.”

From Washington Times ● Aug. 12, 2019

The cohort born in the 1970s and 1980s, who now compose the bulk of China’s workforce, grew up hearing about the deprivations and even starvations their parents experienced during China’s recent past.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2017

The acorn bread was not sufficient to sustain lives already so attenuated by repeated starvations.

From History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra by C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan

These epochs are replete with interesting and romantic incidents, new discoveries; starvations; battles; massacres; lonely, dangerous journeys, etc., which can only be touched upon in a volume of the present size.

From The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

Lad, there are other starvations besides the total lack of food.

From Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth