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Adjective
She is broke and homeless.
Can I borrow 10 dollars? I'm broke until payday.
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2025
They are divided between those who want to travel and leave everything behind, and those who wish to travel but are too broke to do so and those who are already in Egypt and want to return, and those who will return to their homes no matter the conditions.
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Amal Murtaja, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
Renee Poche, a former Love is Blind contestant, filed a lawsuit against Netflix and Love Is Blind producers Delirium TV earlier this year, alleging that her ex on the show — Carter Wall — was broke and abusive, but that the producers did nothing about it.
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Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
Seeger invites the broke musician to stay on his couch and into the heart of his family and takes him under his wing.
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Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
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Show creator Natasha Rothwell plays Mel, a broke JFK airport employee who has never been in love.
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Etymology
Adjective
Middle English, alteration of broken
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“Broke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/broke. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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