starvation

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She says that studies in mice have shown that starvation enhances the animal’s tolerance to chemotherapy doses but can’t cure the disease outright.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

It asserted that widespread famines and mass starvation would doom huge swaths of mankind because the world’s population was growing too rapidly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Between 1846 and 1851, more than a million Irish people died from starvation or disease.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2026

Hundreds of thousands face mass starvation across the region.

From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026

I thank the civil population for their steadfastness and courage in the face of overwhelming odds and starvation.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie