impoverished
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Caers says that KoBold is best positioned to put the Congolese archives online and bring investment to the impoverished country.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
He has also spearheaded humanitarian campaigns, including the Hurricane Katrina response in New Orleans, and in Haiti after the impoverished Caribbean nation's 2010 earthquake.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
Even if the regime doesn’t fall, it will be leaderless, impoverished, isolated, besieged, mostly disarmed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
Yet today, Lisandra Botey identifies more with the impoverished woman in the photograph than with the revolutionaries who liberated her country from Batista.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
Australia is by far the driest, smallest, flattest, most infertile, climatically most unpredictable, and biologically most impoverished continent.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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