beggar

Whether buying a Porsche 911, paying bills or giving money to a beggar at a stoplight, the payment is made the same way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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 here, you see a beggar and you think to yourself, ‘He’s working for them,’” he added, referring to Pakistan’s powerful intelligence services.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2024

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

The swineherd led him to the manor later in rags like a foul beggar, old and broken, propped on a stick.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

“To that I can only say they are correct. It beggars belief.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

"You go into the hospital and there's sepsis posters on lifts and walls but if their actual frontline staff can't recognise the symptoms of sepsis, it just beggars belief," said Jane.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

"Common people, business owners — even beggars — are now fed up. Justice has been sent into exile."

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

“It kind of beggars credulity that that number of complaints could be raised and that none could be substantiated,” Johnson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025

More than once, hungry beggars attempted to grab a handful of rice.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

A worse sin, even, than Amin’s expulsion in 1972 of every last Ugandan Asian, an act that was wildly popular with black Ugandans but which beggared Uganda almost overnight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

But the soaring price of shipping beggared that strategy.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

If you thought the scot-free museum heist beggared belief, then you underestimate Elektra and her imagination.

From Salon ● May 2, 2021

The first warning shot came from Patrik Schick, volleying just wide from 18 yards, and the next sequence of events beggared belief.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2020

The teeth in their sockets like dental molds, the crude tattoos etched in some homebrewed woad faded in the beggared sunlight.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

"It's beggaring the entire Forest Service budget," Safford said.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2022

But beggaring the workers who trusted promises made by their employers, their unions and their government is not the answer.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2018

It would have restricted development on grouse habitat, potentially beggaring states such as Wyoming which collects three-fifths of its revenues from energy companies.

From Economist ● May 3, 2018

It was in the thick of one of its periodic reform dramas, beggaring any movie and featuring a bomb, a Thin Man, a false-bottomed car.

From Time Magazine Archive

But go on, I have tried MY best to save you from beggaring yourself by your riotous charities—now for the thousandth time I wash my hands of the consequences.

From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Mark Twain