impoverished
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Eco-greening has enriched such people and impoverished the Earth.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
He says he is “obsessed” with the Tenement Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, which shows visitors what it was like to be an impoverished Jewish immigrant in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
In northeastern Annaba -- formerly the ancient Roman city of Hippo -- Leo will visit vestiges of the city's historical past, as well as a reception centre run by Catholic nuns for impoverished elderly people.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 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
A young transplanted Kentuckian living in an impoverished pocket of Cincinnati among families of similar background once said to me, “I never knew I was urban-Appalachian till I read it in a magazine.”
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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