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deprive

[dih-prahyv] / dɪˈpraɪv /


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Butts said the measure would deprive the city of an $8-million annual revenue source.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

What did we need him for when we could just buy the Bitcoin ourselves and deprive him of the arbitrage?

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

Falling exports deprive Tehran of the hard currency it needs to support the rial and pay for imports, including raw materials for factories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

"This shows that fires not only destroy forests but also deprive animals of shelter and food," Argitoe said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026

Or would he, as I suspected, deprive the yuppies of another crack at him and drift in some other direction?

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

But I saw, up close, how thoroughly the system deprives people from the lifelines of family connection they need.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Cleage gives the women plenty of substance, though her novelistic mode — more telling than showing — deprives her drama of style.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

This particularly deprives eastern parts of the country of rainfall and sees a later start to the northern wet season -- though less chance of tropical cyclones.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Perhaps that’s Zhao’s point, that loss deprives us of the people we once were.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

This deprives children of much of the freedom and interaction and development that can occur during free time with each other and with their own selves.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

The protests - ignited at the Lycée Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry in the deprived Paris suburb of Créteil - have struck a chord across the country.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Before City -- now embroiled in the biggest financial scandal to hit football's cash-rich Premier League -- moved to the area it was "very deprived" with high rates of unemployment, he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment provides that no person may be deprived of “liberty” without due process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In short order, wrote California historian Kevin Starr, the city was deprived “of its central landmark,” a river that was “possessed of its own special sort of greatness.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Now that it was daytime, and I wasn’t quite so sleep deprived, I could appreciate how each house on Mamou’s block had its own character.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

Though hugely popular with visitors, short-term lodgings are blamed by residents in many popular travel destinations for depriving locals of apartments for long-term rent and pushing up prices.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Six months into the war, the oil squeeze is depriving Tehran of its main source of foreign currency as the value of the Iranian rial plunges, inflation soars and the economy slides deeper into crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

So he stood down, depriving the internet of a highlight reel that would have made him famous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

In 2023, his team reported that depriving colon cancer cells of arginine caused them to accumulate more mutations.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

Warburg believes that either radiation or a chemical carcinogen acts by destroying the respiration of normal cells, thus depriving them of energy.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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