starve
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Environmental advocates contend it would starve the Delta and threaten fish already in severe decline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Joshua Kushner and his family, one imagines, will not starve.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
However, not only do these chemicals affect the bees directly, they can also remove important plants that they rely on for food causing them to starve.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Throughout history, global dependence on seaborne trade has rendered countries vulnerable to blockades, a form of economic warfare meant to starve an enemy of material and treasure by severing its commercial lifelines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
You could get awfully hungry, but you wouldn’t starve.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
And as the government shutdown starves the markets of official data, any individual announcement from a company can take on more meaning.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2025
“We have a duty to see to it that no one starves, that no one goes roofless and cold,” The Times wrote in an editorial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
It isolates the cell from the surrounding tissue and essentially starves it of nutrients.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
Without our original data, our artistic creations, our uniquely flawed opinions and stumbling iterations of truth, generative AI just starves to death.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2023
“Nobody in Germany starves, and few, if any, go hungry,” he wrote.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Investors are starved for information in a new world of “terse” communication from the central bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The push has made progress that few thought possible back in 2022, when Huawei was starved of U.S. technology and Chinese AI companies depended almost entirely on Nvidia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Knicks fans long starved of championship chances erupted.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
The biggest criticism of the new cars this year has been the engines were energy starved because it was too difficult to recover sufficient energy around a lap to meet the maximum allowance.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
At dusk Raji would appear, tired and cross and half starved, for he was counting every rupee until he had enough to return to his farm.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
“That’s starving the world of diesel,” York said, just as demand for the fuel is picking up.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
"It's causing huge environmental problems... we have more food in the world, but there are more than ever people who are malnourished and starving," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The preliminary report published last July had said that just seconds after take-off, fuel-control switches abruptly moved to the "cut-off" position, starving the engines of fuel and triggering total power loss.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
That’s necessary magic in an age that’s starving for it.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Ambuya said it was dangerous to eat too much after starving.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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