as in deprives
to take something away from
news of a death in the family bereaved them of the unmitigated joy that normally prevails at a wedding
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Virginia's enforcement of the new ban is a pattern or practice of conduct by the commonwealth's law enforcement officers that deprives the citizens of Virginia of their constitutional right to buy and sell arms protected by the Second Amendment.
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Cleage gives the women plenty of substance, though her novelistic mode — more telling than showing — deprives her drama of style.
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The ruling strips out one of the last accountability levers sitting outside the market, and consumer capital has already concluded that the market is now the referee.
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The nanofiltration strips almost all of the minerals away.
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“Bereaves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bereaves. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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