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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
deprive .
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Examples
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Cancer once again deprives us of someone too soon.
RIP: Kage Baker 2010
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As if honoring one's promise and upholding one's word deprives one of sovereignty rather than increasing one's safety.
Cheney Admits Authorizing Torture (Or, If You're Going to Do Something Illegal and Immoral...) 2008
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As if honoring one's promise and upholding one's word deprives one of sovereignty rather than increasing one's safety.
Cheney Admits Authorizing Torture (Or, If You're Going to Do Something Illegal and Immoral...) 2008
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As if honoring one's promise and upholding one's word deprives one of sovereignty rather than increasing one's safety.
Cheney Admits Authorizing Torture (Or, If You're Going to Do Something Illegal and Immoral...) 2008
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As if honoring one's promise and upholding one's word deprives one of sovereignty rather than increasing one's safety.
Cheney Admits Authorizing Torture (Or, If You're Going to Do Something Illegal and Immoral...) 2008
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The use of spoken English instead of Chinese with subtitles deprives the dialogue of authenticity as does the rendering of Chinese script in the outmoded Wade-Giles System of Romanization in which "Qin" is spelled "Chin" leading the narrator to the false conclusion that it is the root of the word "China."
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Is then this a fellow fit to be believed when he writes of any man or city, who in one word deprives Greece of the victory, throws down the trophy, and pronounces the inscriptions they had set up to Diana Proseoa (EASTWARD-FACING) to be nothing but pride and vain boasting?
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To use such an expression deprives me of any dignity which I might myself derive from the dignity of my subject.
Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Various 1870
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Arguments in favor of the amendment say that limiting presidential terms deprives the people of the option of reelecting a good leader.
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Marriage, she said, is about starting a family with children - and having gay couples starting a family "deprives" children of having a Mom and a Dad.
Paul Hogarth: Glee Breaks New Ground on Gay Rights, but Must Go Further 2010
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