pauperize
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Runaway price boosts might wipe out savings, pauperize individuals, bring down governments —but usually in only one or a few countries at any specific time, and for what seemed fairly clear reasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
In order not to pauperize his people, Owen had them pay a slight tuition for the care of the children, and there was a small tax levied to buy flower-seeds.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Elbert Hubbard
"Oh, as to that," Thor said, forcing himself to eat slowly and sit straight in the style commended by his stepmother, "it won't need a doctor to pauperize poor Fay."
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King
"They're not well off, but we mustn't on any account pauperize them," was her verdict.
From The Princess of the School by Frank Wiles
"Citizens are being pauperized left, right and centre, why does the citizenry of this country deserve so uncaring & heartless a leadership?"
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
Iran, after all, is not the only Muslim country with an urban westernized elite that’s been decimated by dictatorship and pauperized by decades of war.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
“Haiti was immediately quarantined and pauperized into the forced dysfunction of a postcolonial state,” literary scholar Nick Nesbitt has written, “hamstrung by the terrified slave-holding powers that then controlled the globe.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021
“Massive economic mismanagement coupled with spiraling corruption have pauperized large segments of the Arab people,” said Fawaz Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2019
When other groups of citizens meet together to consult over their common affairs, or to engage in common activities, they are not pauperized by the community.
From Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice by James F. Morton. Jr.
Banks stopped giving out money, instantly pauperizing hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, who couldn’t access their accounts even as they watched the value of their savings wither away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
Coal operators were flayed for "pauperizing" the industry, the U. S. Government was asked to lend a helping hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
But by humiliating and pauperizing Germany, the victors contributed to the conditions out of which Nazism arose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three years ago it would have been hard to find one of them who would not have been ready to denounce the pauperizing effect of the dole.*
From Time Magazine Archive
With equal intelligence, he laid bare the pauperizing effect of aid injudiciously extended to the poor in too generous a measure.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
