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When the Home Secretary is abducted in the largest deprived area, Paradis City, special agent Fredrika (Julia Ragnarsson) enlists Emir (Alexander Abdallah), an ex-MMA fighter facing life in prison, to find the politician.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
20 Jan. 2025 -
Yet the contrast is sharp between how AI is used in the experimental school—nestled within an abundance of human attention—and how it is used in more deprived circumstances.—
Allison Pugh,
WIRED,
7 Dec. 2024
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Those accomplishments included what may be the lowest homicide rate per capita in the city’s history, an increase in the median household income, funding for programs for disadvantaged youth and investments in infrastructure, like $60 million in federal funding for the Underdeck project.—
Tess Riski,
Miami Herald,
16 Jan. 2025
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In the 1990s, teletherapy was championed as a way to reach disadvantaged patients living in remote locations where there were few psychiatrists.—
Ellen Barry,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2025
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Figure Skating in Harlem is a first of its kind organization that mentors young girls of color in underprivileged communities, helping to transform their lives and grow in confidence, leadership and academic achievement for their futures.—
Danielle Jennings,
People.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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More than 30 years after Voinovich and the bishops proposed vouchers as a solution for underprivileged children in a single city, public subsidies for private school tuition were now universal in Ohio, covering tens of thousands of families.—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
13 Jan. 2025
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Even the Kremlin’s own human rights council had denounced the charges as unwarranted, adding its voice to a chorus of support for Prokopyeva in what became a battle of wills between an impecunious local reporter and Russia’s powerful security apparatus.—
Andrew Higgins,
BostonGlobe.com,
6 July 2020
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His half-Danish father, Prince Andrew, second in line to the Greek throne, was sentenced to death after the army was defeated in Smyrna by the Turks, saved only by the intervention of George V. In 1930, after eight years of impecunious exile in Paris, the family dispersed.—
Moira Hodgson,
WSJ,
4 Dec. 2020
Adjective
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Understand that poor sleep hygiene can negatively impact the quantity and quality of sleep.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Texans’ offensive line was mostly poor this season, unable to consistently protect Stroud.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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Looking like the cross between a spermatozoon and a tadpole, this needy, frail little infant is wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes, resting on the dresser and then the drawer of poor Jack Nance’s apartment in an industrial hellscape.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
16 Jan. 2025
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There’s William Shawn, who was a mentor to Michaels and who ran this magazine for thirty-five years, corralling a gang of talented, needy egos in order to produce a weekly publication.—
Susan Morrison,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Guatemala, a small, impoverished nation scarred by a brutal civil war, has a substantial undocumented population in the United States.—
Daniele Volpe,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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The workshop's initial mission was to provide a trade for widows and other impoverished Palestinian women.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
18 Jan. 2025
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The remnants reflected the lives of dispossessed and displaced people.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
19 May 2022
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Conover keeps his readers waiting for too long, almost half the book, before saying anything about how the San Luis Valley came to be a magnet for the dispossessed.—
Kathryn Schulz,
The New Yorker,
21 Nov. 2022
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“Unaffluent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaffluent. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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