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as in poor
lacking money or material possessions
the widespread hope that the lottery's record-setting jackpot is won by an impoverished family
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as in desolate
producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation
an impoverished field that over the years had been overgrazed
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as in pauperized
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as in depleted
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Recent Examples of impoverished
Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 24 Nov. 2024
It's been just over three years since Season 1 of the series, which follows a dystopian competition show where impoverished people compete in deadly childhood games for a cash prize.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
North Korea has also stepped up its security measures – both to protect its dictator Kim Jong Un and to prevent news of the North Korean deployments to Russia from spreading within the highly isolated, impoverished country.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
Muhammad Yunus, a Ph.D. graduate, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding a bank that gave loans to impoverished people in Bangladesh.
—Adam Tamburin, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024
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The road to an impoverished life is to have everything but with an insatiable craving to be even richer.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 24 Nov. 2024
It's been just over three years since Season 1 of the series, which follows a dystopian competition show where impoverished people compete in deadly childhood games for a cash prize.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
North Korea has also stepped up its security measures – both to protect its dictator Kim Jong Un and to prevent news of the North Korean deployments to Russia from spreading within the highly isolated, impoverished country.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
Muhammad Yunus, a Ph.D. graduate, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding a bank that gave loans to impoverished people in Bangladesh.
—Adam Tamburin, Axios, 11 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impoverished
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In many poor and densely populated neighborhoods across the country, people have access to free, unmetered electricity.Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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That being said, today was a very poor outing as breadth (advancers vs. decliners) was awful in both markets.Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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By the time Rip and Lloyd dump Jamie’s body and set his car ablaze in a desolate field in Iowa, her cover story is validated, and warrants are issued against Jamie for aggravated assault and domestic violence.Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
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At the same time, the Russians should know best about the desolate state of affairs inside the Syrian security and military apparatus.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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Your employees are the foundation, not a resource to be depleted.Sherzod Odilov, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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The woman’s life savings were nearly depleted, leading to her declaring bankruptcy and her home being repossessed.Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 7 Dec. 2024
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The movie’s protagonist, Frida (Naomi Ackie), is a broke cater waiter and nail artist who sneaks into the VIP section of an event she’s been working, only to trip on her heels and fall flat on her face.Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
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Cuban himself ran side hustles, got fired from multiple jobs and nearly went broke on his path to becoming a billionaire.Megan Sauer, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2024
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So why are women losing ground? Dec. 11, 2024 California was an oasis this November in a largely barren Democratic landscape.Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
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The most notorious gulag lies in the barren, rocky hills outside the capital, Damascus.Richard Engel, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
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They were all punished harshly—lives ruined.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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Johnny sued Amber in 2019 for defamation, claiming that the op-ed article ruined his career and took away his acting opportunities, as well as his long-standing role in Pirates of the Caribbean.Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 5 Dec. 2024
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In that way, McDonald’s became a kind of scapegoat for people who were exhausted of stretching their budgets to afford food and suspecting (not without reason) that corporate greed was at least partly to blame.Allison Morrow, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
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Because the Syrian army is exhausted and no longer has the courage to fight alone.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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Their story could have been told myriad ways and, if the current TV market had anything to say about it: the best way to tell any true crime is to be as bleak, haunting and gory as possible.Ed Herro, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
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In recent years, people have taken to social media arguing that, while the film might be visually appealing, its underlying message is bleak.John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Impoverished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impoverished. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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