deprive
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Deprive a man of an elevator or a flight of stairs, and could he make it from the first floor to the second?
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2016
Deprive people of the words with which to resist, and you will crush resistance.
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2013
Some More Than Others Your Brain on Computers: Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime Time without digital input can allow people to learn better or come up with new ideas.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2010
"Deprive" would be possible, proceeding on this hypothesis: conform to, liken to, prior to, oblivious to, but deprive of ...
From Time Magazine Archive
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Deprive us of this fundamental faith in cause and effect, order and regularity—of reason, in short—and science becomes as impossible to man as to the orang-outang.
From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Patterson, Robert
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The Declaration of Independence
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