privation
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Privation and oppression forced more than eight million Venezuelans into exile, destabilizing the region.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026
Privation and poverty have been known to many Nicaraguans like Noé for a long time.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2022
Privation has long brought out the best in home cooks.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2020
When the Devil is trounced in Paradise Regained, "Darkness now rose / As daylight sunk, and brought in louring Night / Her shadowy offspring, unsubstantial both, / Privation mere of light and absent day".
From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2012
Privation and toil had put an edge on the young man’s temper, and the temper was not amiable where Craig was concerned.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman
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