depravation

Example Sentences

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"In Invergordon we have areas of social depravation but no funding to put into anything," she said.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2023

The new lawsuit against Baldwin, though filed in California, relies on provisions of New Mexico state law regarding the depravation of benefits, also known as “loss of consortium.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2023

For so many people, scholars and members of the general public, the African American experience is one primarily characterized by trauma, pain, anxiety, pathology, depravation.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2022

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 the seventeenth century, the depravation of meaning took place, in England at least.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene