famine
Example Sentences
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He smuggled himself into Hong Kong as a penniless 12-year-old escaping famine in communist China.
It asserted that widespread famines and mass starvation would doom huge swaths of mankind because the world’s population was growing too rapidly.
Fletcher said the UN was also trying to keep the Strait of Hormuz open in its bid to get aid convoys to sub-Saharan Africa amid a "looming famine" in the region.
From BBC
For one, the status of women in North Korea has made great leaps since the so-called Arduous March - the famine caused in the 1990s when North Korea's economy collapsed.
From BBC
The same assessment said Dilling in South Kordofan is also likely facing famine conditions.
From Barron's
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