starve
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Experts warned that Ukraine is Europe’s breadbasket and Europe would starve.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026
“You’re going to probably starve the person to death before you starve the cancer to death,” she said.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
The book’s opening lines capture his zero-sum Malthusian thinking: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
"I warned loved ones that I might be arrested, leaving a spare set of keys and hoping my cat wouldn't starve in my absence."
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
“Nope. I was about to starve to death.”
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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
According to the NHS,, external when the brain is starved of oxygen it can lead to strokes, brain injuries, loss of consciousness or long-term cognitive impacts.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Knicks fans long starved of championship chances erupted.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Grant purchased one parcel in early 2023, when rents in Los Angeles were skyrocketing in a city starved for housing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Freidenberg described what happened to her body as she starved, including her loss of hips and breasts and the ways in which her digestion and other bodily processes changed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
I would have starved to death if it hadn’t been for Grandma.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Environmentalists say the wall will accelerate erosion elsewhere while starving the neighboring salt marsh of sediment, hurting wildlife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
That’s necessary magic in an age that’s starving for it.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Commissary is often now the difference between starving and a semi-normal diet, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
A preliminary report published last July found that seconds after take-off, the 12-year-old Boeing 787 Dreamliner's fuel-control switches abruptly moved to the "cut-off" position, starving both engines of fuel and and triggering total power loss.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
The Soviet soldiers involved in this war found themselves in an icy stalemate, freezing and starving to death.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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