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Traders have been starved of economic data amid the government shutdown but the flow will resume with the September jobs report on Thursday.

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And so the story returns, as it always does, to devastation: a creature who longed to break bread with humanity instead learns to starve himself of hope.

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Unlike some of the other leading contenders, England have been starved of top-level competition since losing to Spain in the final of Euro 2024.

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I must reveal myself or I am afraid that I will starve down here before we even get to America.

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“There’s a real responsibility right now to be making a show called ‘The Hunger Games’ when it seems people are being systematically starved to a point where they’re desperate.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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