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With crude exports from Iranian ports effectively stopped up, the country will be deprived of a large chunk of its oil revenues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The judge said that states stood to lose out on federal funding and that residents within the states could be deprived of their rights.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2025

They would be deprived of a combined $1.4 billion in pay annually.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024

I don't want Calstock to be deprived of homes, I don't want to see the developer lose everything.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2024

“It is almost impossible for a man who enjoys freedom with all its prerogatives, to realize what it means to be deprived of that freedom.”—Said by Erie Stanley Gardner.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote


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