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The Great Starvation.
The Great Starvation - as a noun
A famine in ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to america)
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the great calamitythe great hungerthe irish famineExample Sentences
"During the great starvation, people resorted to eating whatever they could find."
"The survivors of the great starvation were weak and malnourished."
"Efforts to alleviate the effects of the great starvation fell short due to lack of resources."
"The government was heavily criticized for its handling of the great starvation crisis."
"Many stories of desperation emerged from the time of the great starvation."
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