depleted
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“Meanwhile, working people pay the price in higher rents, depleted services, and a city that has stopped working for them.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
The trustees, however, included in their report an estimate of when the trust funds would be depleted if combined, in order to illustrate the actuarial status of the Social Security program as a whole.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Toxicity can develop, readily available carbon sources become depleted, and the increase in soil respiration eventually levels off before declining.
From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026
But as our nature is classed amongst the most depleted in the world, with one in six species at risk of extinction, discovering a control on habitat destruction is a cause for hope.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
He started by going to bookstores in Pasadena, and when he’d depleted their shelves, he took the bus into downtown Los Angeles and scoured the shelves of every bookstore he could find.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Zilch, Zip, Nada: Words For Nothing
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Vocabulary from the Third and Final Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016
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President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)
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