unaffluent

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaffluent
Adjective
  • In some of the most deprived areas, including Middlesbrough, where Camilla spent the day on February 13, the trust, with the queen's help, has bumped this figure up to 41.8 percent.
    Jack Royston, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Trump’s dismantling of the Education Department puts student loan services, civil rights enforcement and funding for disadvantaged students in limbo.
    Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
  • However, McMahon said the agency will still administer those statutory programs that students from disadvantaged backgrounds rely on.
    Arthur Jones II, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Soon after, Henley formed Developing Options, a nonprofit involved in gang intervention that also provided underprivileged children a safe outlet in sports.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • In it, attention-seeking Dunder Mifflin manager Michael Scott (Carell) pledges to pay the college tuition for a group of underprivileged third-graders.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • This can manifest in poor financial behaviors like excessive credit card debt, minimal savings, or impulsive investment decisions.
    Shane Enete, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • From the moment the details of the agreement became known, analysts gave the deal a poor prognosis.
    TIME, TIME, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Catch up quick: The case centered on a long-running federal program for feeding needy children.
    Kyle Stokes, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The mission of the group is to reduce food waste and feed needy community members.
    Encinitas Advocate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • With the dwarfs and bandits by her side, Snow White vows to reclaim her parents’ home and restore peace to her impoverished kingdom.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The homes are part of an ambitious five-year plan, announced in 2021, to build 50,000 additional apartments in Pyongyang, where residents’ quality of life is considerably higher than elsewhere in the impoverished country.
    Oscar Holland, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The remnants reflected the lives of dispossessed and displaced people.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 19 May 2022
  • 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 31 Mar. 2025.

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