starvation
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Starvation in Gaza today summons up my grandmother’s stories of how her family starved to death in the Warsaw ghetto.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025
"Starvation, access to food, must never be used as a means of war. It's completely unjustifiable and it must end," he said.
From BBC • Jul. 27, 2025
Later, while contemplating such a project on a walk with her dogs, Becker remembered the Minnesota Starvation Experiment.
From Slate • May 15, 2023
Ancel Keys, author of the well known Minnesota Starvation Experiment which took place in the 1940s, had his study participants complete food diaries.
From Salon • Jan. 1, 2023
Starvation would force me to come to the house or the store.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
Vocabulary lists containing starvation
Africa - Middle School
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Africa - High School
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