the destitute
noun
: people who are extremely poor : needy people
The charity provides food and clothing for the destitute.
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The Roman Catholic nun, who dedicated her life to caring for the destitute in India, officially became Saint Teresa of Calcutta nearly 20 years after her death on Sept. 5, 1997.
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The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2024
The earmark of a great nation is how its people treat the destitute or the underprivileged who began life in figurative chains.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2024
In the 1990s, tennis-world stars such as Billie Jean King and journalist Bud Collins raised money for the destitute Gibson, but there wasn’t much oversight.
—Patrick Sauer, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
But even by that standard, the coronavirus’s outsize impact on the destitute and vulnerable is striking.
—Robert Malley, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2020
Its mission is to help the poor, the imprisoned, the destitute, the hungry, the aged and victims of disaster.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
The flood of Tunisian émigrés spans socioeconomic classes, with professionals, the working class and the destitute represented among those fleeing, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushes up the price of food and gas, and the government pulls back from subsidizing basic items such as sugar and rice.
—Chao Deng, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2022
Adhikari, for his part, wants his heroes to speak out this month for incremental reform and overdue compensation — for the underpaid, the destitute, and the dead.
—Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2022
ByteDance extracts an overly generous cut of the charitable money meant to go to the poor and the destitute.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2022
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The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2024
The earmark of a great nation is how its people treat the destitute or the underprivileged who began life in figurative chains.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2024
In the 1990s, tennis-world stars such as Billie Jean King and journalist Bud Collins raised money for the destitute Gibson, but there wasn’t much oversight.
—Patrick Sauer, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
But even by that standard, the coronavirus’s outsize impact on the destitute and vulnerable is striking.
—Robert Malley, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2020
Its mission is to help the poor, the imprisoned, the destitute, the hungry, the aged and victims of disaster.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
The flood of Tunisian émigrés spans socioeconomic classes, with professionals, the working class and the destitute represented among those fleeing, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushes up the price of food and gas, and the government pulls back from subsidizing basic items such as sugar and rice.
—Chao Deng, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2022
Adhikari, for his part, wants his heroes to speak out this month for incremental reform and overdue compensation — for the underpaid, the destitute, and the dead.
—Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2022
ByteDance extracts an overly generous cut of the charitable money meant to go to the poor and the destitute.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2022
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