starvation
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"We may witness a crisis that will force 45 million more people into hunger and starvation."
From Barron's • May 11, 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
While a lack of food may be driving whales into the bay, it's not necessarily starvation that's killing them.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
In turn, Germany was pushed to the edge of starvation, despite its relative food self-sufficiency, because Britain’s counter-blockade worsened the domestic fact that horses and farmers were sent from grainfields to the battlefields.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Then grown-up birds confuse those plastic scraps with food and feed them to their chicks, and the babies die of starvation even though their parents are feeding them just like they should.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
Vocabulary lists containing starvation
Africa - Middle School
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Africa - High School
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