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deprive

[dih-prahyv] / dɪˈpraɪv /


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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

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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