starving

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The algae provide coral's characteristic colours, and their departure leaves behind a ghostly white structure that is gradually starving.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

He says that many of them were thirsty, starving or had rotten feet after journeying into Evros.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Once upon a time, he lived out his starving artist fantasies abroad before putting that aside to join the family business.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

“I’m not a Method actor in any sense, but it felt like to play somebody starving and then go home at night and have a big steak would be making my job harder,” Radcliffe says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

Returning, he gave the venison to his starving family and to Tallow, who shared it out to Auntie Muskrat, to LaPautre’s hungry children, and to Fishtail.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich