depravation
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One report says that sleep depravation costs the UK up to £40bn a year in lost productivity.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2023
The new lawsuit alleges negligence and the depravation of benefits, based on the emotional or financial support that Hutchins previously provided to younger sister Svetlana Zemko and parents Olga Solovey and Anatolii Androsovych.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 10, 2023
Wallenda, who has made successful walks across Niagara Falls and above Times Square, said he has been training with an oxygen depravation mask to mirror the conditions above the volcano.
From Reuters ● Feb. 27, 2020
In a sublime study of gradual depravation, Arquette transforms into a deeply unmotivated prison employee who is hardened by her own unhappiness, succumbing to both desire and resentment.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2018
This moral depravation, naturally, extended downward to the whole court.
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton
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