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The news left her legions of customers bereft.

She looks bereft and flinches at every explosion we hear.

From BBC

The connection I had with the world as a young newshound had dissolved, leaving my spirit bereft.

From Salon

Trucks equipped with cannons and 50-caliber machine guns sit as bereft sentinels on street corners.

"It didn't strip the Syrian military of specific capabilities only - it sent it back to the starting line, bereft of any significant strategic capabilities," wrote Yoav Limor in the Israel Hayom newspaper.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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