deprivation
noun
the act of depriving.
deprivations
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pluralof deprivation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Such support can come with deprivations as well as gratifications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
"When hazards overlap or strike repeatedly, they compound existing deprivations."
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
The news organisations noted that: "Journalists endure many deprivations and hardships in warzones. We are deeply alarmed that the threat of starvation is now one of them."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025
Geoff Dyer is among the great uncategorizable prose writers of the past several decades and he also went to Oxford, albeit at the end of the 1970s, with the war deprivations of yore in rearview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
Some are distempered out of all reason and nature, and grasp at all who go by with hands emaciated by the deprivations of fever.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
