starvation

Xu was born into a poor family in rural Henan province in 1958, the year leader Mao Zedong launched his "Great Leap Forward" -- an industrialisation plan that led to mass starvation.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

For our early ancestors, body fat was a lifeline: too little could mean starvation, too much could slow you down.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

If fuel starvation caused the engines to lose power, the question is whether the switches explain the entire sequence of events.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

Thousands of Germans, displaced by the end of the Seven Years’ War and facing starvation, had accepted an invitation from Russia’s German-born ruler, Catherine the Great, to settle in the Russian Empire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

They charged that Bliss was more concerned about protecting his reputation than admitting the obvious truth: The body of a forty-nine-year-old man in previous good health had been destroyed by infection and starvation.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

Still bearing the scars from when she almost died, she went off the grid, calling herself Emma and taking jobs that were the “stuff that fresh starts and soul starvations were made of.”

From Washington Times ● Aug. 12, 2019

The cohort born in the 1970s and 1980s, who now compose the bulk of China’s workforce, grew up hearing about the deprivations and even starvations their parents experienced during China’s recent past.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2017

These epochs are replete with interesting and romantic incidents, new discoveries; starvations; battles; massacres; lonely, dangerous journeys, etc., which can only be touched upon in a volume of the present size.

From The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

The acorn bread was not sufficient to sustain lives already so attenuated by repeated starvations.

From History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra by C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan

Lad, there are other starvations besides the total lack of food.

From Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth