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The concern among some groups is that the lower amount will impoverish people who are ill and have little prospect of getting a job anytime soon.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

The Luddite movement, which predated the Swing Riots, was led by textile workers convinced that power-operated looms would permanently impoverish the middle class.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Those who fear ideas, as well as those who view life as mostly transaction, impoverish themselves and our society.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

Niger relies heavily on foreign aid, and sanctions could further impoverish its more than 25 million people.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

Thus—National Institutions, founded for the encouragement of learning, are made to oppress and impoverish its followers.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

“The selfish-gene model increasingly impoverishes both scientific and popular views of genetics and evolution,” David Dobbs wrote in an essay for Aeon.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

But soil drainage gradually impoverishes the land, posing a threat to local farmers and releasing the CO2 captured by the peatland which are important carbon sinks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

"This debate impoverishes democracy. It's a scrappy debate, in which you provoke, you use debauchery, you joke around," said Janones, who denied accusations that he uses fake news.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2022

Circuit Court of Appeals, serves as a sober reminder that we need to work hard to balance competing faiths and that the discourse of victims and haters impoverishes us all.

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2017

Penalties of Disuse Permanent disuse of an organ as a consequence of acquired habits gradually impoverishes it, and in the end causes it to disappear, or even annihilates it altogether.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

The actors will soon slip into their 1967 costumes as the impoverished Greasers and the privileged Socs — and spend the next two hours hating each other onstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

He was the genuine artifact, the son of an impoverished Minnesota miner; a lumberjack and a steelworker in his youth.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

It is an unusually prominent position for the group’s warlord leader, Abdulmalik Al-Houthi, who claims descent from the Prophet Muhammad and rules his impoverished territory through fear and religious fervor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

He estimates that arms sales to Russia and the troop deployment have netted the impoverished country close to $10bn.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

This will begin to make him hateful to his subjects and, if he becomes impoverished, he will be held in low regard by everyone.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Pete Rodriguez, the brotherhood’s western district vice president, called the proposal “outrageous” and suggested it could worsen the homelessness crisis by impoverishing workers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2024

The economic decisions that enriched some people while impoverishing others were made in distant cities and, for the most part, in foreign languages, and few people could discern their origins.

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

Independence came at a tremendous cost, however, since France forced the new republic to pay steep indemnities to compensate French citizens for their property losses for many years, impoverishing the new nation.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

“But in the longer term, only deeper reforms can prevent slower growth and increasing inequality, an impoverishing combination the region has not seen this century.”

From Reuters ● Sep. 28, 2021

Here we see again at work that fertile agency which has assisted in impoverishing the masses.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus