starvation
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The book is about colonisation and devastation, set against a backdrop of families left to die of starvation on estates owned by British aristocrats and landowners.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
"Energy starvation as a coercive tool is incompatible with international human rights norms."
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Every day I pick up the giant backpack of cumbersome, crippling starvation and confusion, and put it on.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
"In many places, groundwater extraction, sediment starvation, and rapid urbanization are causing land to sink much faster than previously recognized," Ohenhen said.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026
As a panicked response to hunger and starvation, barter trade ran wild and private markets exploded in number and importance.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
Vocabulary lists containing starvation
Africa - Middle School
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Africa - High School
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