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privation

[prahy-vey-shuhn] / praɪˈveɪ ʃən /


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Privation and oppression forced more than eight million Venezuelans into exile, destabilizing the region.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

Privation and poverty have been known to many Nicaraguans like Noé for a long time.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2022

Privation has long brought out the best in home cooks.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2020

When the Devil is trounced in Paradise Regained, "Darkness now rose / As daylight sunk, and brought in louring Night / Her shadowy offspring, unsubstantial both, / Privation mere of light and absent day".

From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2012

And how can he any way partake of Privation, who is very Essence, and cannot but exist; who gives Being to every thing that exists, and besides whom there is no Existence?

From The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Tufail, Ibn




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