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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

Some kinds of plants improve the sod, while others impoverish or exhaust it.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd

“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

Translating my private, zany experience of a photo of a thrift-shop window into words necessarily impoverishes it, but it captures something of the camp interjection in action.

From Slate ● May 14, 2019

Professionalism impoverishes relationship because, for instance, neither the parent nor the child gives or receives.

From Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships. by Reuel L. Howe

Pruett, who gave birth to Landers’ father, Corky, at 15, had a tough and impoverished youth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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

And despite the bloodshed, it was a gamble that paid off, reaping countless benefits for the isolated and impoverished country, transforming both its economic and military fortunes.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Each exemplifies his empathy for people in their day-to-day challenges, but he regarded the last, about Maude Callen, a black nurse-midwife in an impoverished community in South Carolina, as his most rewarding assignment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Before her mother had been carted off to Lynchburg in 1920, Carrie Buck had led an impoverished but still-normal childhood.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

The suspect in the killing, 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami, accused the church of impoverishing his family, according to police.

From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2022

He will be unwilling to run into such debt with his own feelings, having learned from æsthetic pleasure that there are activities of the soul which, instead of impoverishing, enrich it.

From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Vernon Lee