be impoverished
Example Sentences
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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
Will our children be impoverished by better access to pre-K schooling?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2021
Wee cannot but resent," he said, "that 40,000 people should be impoverished to enrich little more than 40 merchants, who being the whole buyers of our tobacco, give us what they please for it.
From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
