be impoverished
Example Sentences
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Otherwise, the rest of the budget, defense and otherwise, is going to be impoverished by the nuclear juggernaut.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2024
No one should be left behind or be impoverished by these policies, "otherwise it will be a problem for democracy", he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2023
But our way of existing will be impoverished in the process.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 12, 2023
Will our children be impoverished by better access to pre-K schooling?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
The reason of it none knew, or how his estate had come to be impoverished, as beyond doubt it was.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch