destitution
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Example Sentences
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After years of insurgencies, residents in eastern Congo are accustomed to food shortages, inflation and destitution.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
The destitution will not just be political and moral, it will be economic too.
From Salon • May 29, 2025
The IPC defines it as a condition in which "at least one in five households experience an extreme lack of food and face starvation resulting in destitution, extremely critical levels of acute malnutrition and death."
From BBC • May 13, 2025
Long gone are the days of solidarity with those escaping destitution and repression.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2025
His next known movement was in 1786 when, abruptly and mysteriously, he turned up in Philadelphia with his wife and eight children, apparently on the verge of destitution.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
