privation
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If not for remittances, families would suffer even greater privation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
To be united for prayer again "is an indescribable feeling after two years of privation", Ghalid al-Nimra told AFP at Gaza City's Sayed Hachem mosque.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
Come spring and summer they'll release the stored-up precipitation to cattle ranchers, nut farmers, and local water utilities around the state, ending a three-year spell of privation.
From Salon • Jan. 5, 2023
We follow the fragile peace of the ’90s into a century of war, extremism, post-truth and privation.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022
I look upon our life in hiding as an interesting adventure, full of danger and romance, and every privation as an amusing addition to my diary.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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