indigent

Five years ago, Devi, the only daughter in a rural, indigent Sri Lankan family and a principal figure in Randy Boyagoda’s “Lords of Serendipity,” made the finals of a spelling competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

When the center was founded in 1971, it mainly did legal work for clients who were indigent or had civil-liberties complaints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

The state’s high court handed down a decision Monday that vacated court fines for an alleged prison gang leader, setting a precedent that advocates said will help indigent defendants in other cases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

His 2001 land reform program redistributed government-owned and private land to indigent residents willing to cultivate it.

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026

IDA specialized in driving down prices of essential drugs, the kind that the indigent sick need most urgently.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

The family also needs to seem trapped not only as impostors but, more crucially, as indigents.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020

The law allows public defenders to represent only indigents.

From Washington Times ● May 1, 2019

When it becomes apparent, with the approach of evening, that the city cannot house all its indigents, those already in the library decide to stay there overnight.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 5, 2019

Nothing fancy or pretentious at this humble site, a resting place established for city indigents in the 1870s.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2019

People swarming in, cities doubling and trebling in numbers of inhabitants, while the fiscal guardians groan over the increasing weight of improvements and the need to care for a large new spate of indigents.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck