deprivation
Example Sentences
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The firm employs about 300 workers, including about 50 apprentices, in an area of high social deprivation that has lost about 1,200 jobs in recent years.
From BBC
A jury last year took their side, awarding more than $660 million in damages across three Greenpeace entities, citing charges including trespass, nuisance, conspiracy and deprivation of property access.
From Barron's
Soon “the spaceship is forced to land on a distant planet, and Rodolfo’s hallucinations grow increasingly intense until he finally succumbs to oxygen deprivation.”
"The coal industry left deprivation," said Philip Williams, director of the Cambrian Village Trust.
From BBC
"Species survive because they reproduce, but in times of deprivation, animals turn on their own resilience programs," Rando said.
From Science Daily
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