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Dahlia Lithwick: I find the public-facing discourse around shootings to be impoverished, dangerous, and a powder keg on its own terms.

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2025

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

If current trends continue, Reich said, swaths of boreal forests “will be impoverished, and they might even fall apart or collapse” over the next half-century unless warming slows.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

The Church would be impoverished by the loss of one member of its organism, and that very member would be paralysed which in moments of distress and danger had most effectually protected her.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von




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