deprived
Example Sentences
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A vicious cycle has become ingrained - a deprived area to which poor people are sent, or find their way to through circumstance, rather than choice.
From BBC
Will, rather than being deprived, simply had very particular rules about what he would eat, and whether or not his diet was killing him didn’t necessarily mean he was mentally incompetent.
As Fatima's spreadsheet shows, finding a job in Bradford, one of England's most deprived cities, can be tough.
From BBC
New research looks at what happens inside our brain when we are sleep deprived.
The government has also announced an extra £440m in so-called recovery grants for councils in economically deprived areas - and an extra £272m to tackle homelessness.
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