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deprive

verb as in keep or take away something wanted, needed

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Drugmakers opposed most-favored-nation pricing, arguing that it would deprive them of funding needed to develop future medicines and that it could jeopardize the billions in the recently announced planned investments.

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Above ground it is a low-slung angular wisp of an object, whose cladding in mirrored steel deprives it of any sense of form or substance.

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The two boys subjected to the 2017 beatings were subsequently deprived of food and left for weeks to sleep in the open.

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Russia’s campaign against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure is designed to punish civilians by depriving them of heat and electricity over the cold winter months, in the hope that Kyiv will bend to Moscow’s will.

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The US had described the five - from Jamaica, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and Yemen - as "deprived monsters".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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