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starve

[stahrv] / stɑrv /






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Environmental advocates say it would starve the Delta of needed water and threaten fish that are already in severe decline.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 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

He fears prey availability has not recovered enough to support tigers, who could starve.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

But finding the wallet made up for all that, plus now they weren't going to starve.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

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

When society fails to honor difference, it starves itself of innovation, empathy and depth.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2025

This causes accelerated growth of algae and other plant life in a process called eutrophication which starves other organisms like fish of oxygen.

From BBC May 24, 2024

It isolates the cell from the surrounding tissue and essentially starves it of nutrients.

From Science Daily Mar. 28, 2024

“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

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

Osterberg courted Britain's middle and upper classes for her college, deciding most elementary school girls were "absolutely unfit to be trained... their muscles have been starved from babyhood".

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

And intensifying competition means we will increasingly be in “an investing landscape where certain segments of the economy and markets are starved for capital, while others are flush with attractive financing options.”

From Barron's Jun. 10, 2026

It is a club which has been starved of success and silverware for decades but European Cup winner Nigel Spink believes victory in Istanbul would be a watershed moment.

From BBC May 20, 2026

For clearly their thirst for gold was insatiable; they starved for it; they lusted for it; they wanted to stuff themselves with it as if they were pigs.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“We are starving the Bay-Delta estuary now, and we know that that needs to change if we actually want to preserve that ecosystem and all the benefits it provides,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

That’s necessary magic in an age that’s starving for it.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

The first shot has a miserable grandeur: a frigid landscape, frozen berries and wind so strong it nearly blows a starving traveler sideways.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

Despite her efforts, Vicki's daughter struggled to gain weight and she felt like medical staff were insinuating she was "not doing enough" and "starving" her baby.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

After an hour I was starving, so I ate all the biscuits in my sack.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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