starvation
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"Energy starvation as a coercive tool is incompatible with international human rights norms."
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Every day I pick up the giant backpack of cumbersome, crippling starvation and confusion, and put it on.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 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 brought major disruption to marine ecosystems: mass die-offs of seabirds, fishery disasters, kelp degradation, whale entanglements, sea lion starvation, fish migration and harmful algal blooms, Amaya said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Cuba had food rationing but no starvation, no enforced malnutrition.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Vocabulary lists containing starvation
Africa - Middle School
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Africa - High School
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