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pauper

[paw-per] / ˈpɔ pər /


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However, this nomad only looked like a pauper.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

Gi-hun, meanwhile, is living like a pauper, holed up in an empty fleabag hotel he owns and refusing to spend any of the fortune he’d won on himself.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 26, 2024

For most of human history, identity was ascribed at birth: pauper, peasant, preacher, princess.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2024

Follow the adage "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."

From Salon Oct. 9, 2022

And once in the new country, arriving in Seattle, she found she had married a pauper.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

The sport of kings to some, the sport of paupers for most.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2025

"The RFU keep trumpeting community rugby as the lifeblood of the game, while at the same time seemingly treating them like paupers."

From BBC Jan. 9, 2025

Many people in both America and the United Kingdom found the idea of elected representation for colonists utterly anomalous, as much an outlier as elected representation for paupers or for women.

From Slate Feb. 15, 2023

Monica, Danny and James are toiling in the shadow of the entertainment industry — relative paupers who can’t help wondering if they’ll ever be invited to the nearby banquet.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 14, 2022

Sick paupers had to be gotten off the streets and out of the alleyways.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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