beggar
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In several essays, including one titled “The Wandering Jew,” Elie Wiesel describes his friendship with a mysterious, charismatic sage who dresses like a beggar but whose Jewish learning enthralls all those who meet him.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
"It's just garbage... the clothes you can't even wear, you wouldn't even give to a beggar," Akoth said.
From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025
But over the following years, purported sightings of Majorana multiplied: as a beggar in Naples, a monk in Calabria, and a vagabond in South America.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 20, 2023
Ceruti was tagged “Pitocchetto” — the little beggar — given his fondness for pictures of maidservants, peasant families and vagrants in tattered rags.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023
“She thought your dad was a beggar asking for free food. What he should have said was ‘sal,’ which is the word for uncooked rice.”
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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