starvation

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

While a lack of food may be driving whales into the bay, it's not necessarily starvation that's killing them.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 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

The dismissed men, Burnham knew, faced homelessness and poverty; their families confronted the real prospect of starvation.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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

From Hidden Hand by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

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 McGlashan, C. F. (Charles Fayette)

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 Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel