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 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

By such depravation, nobleness of character is utterly destroyed.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander