poorest

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Bed-and-breakfast hotels turned into cheap boardinghouses, attracting Britain’s sickest and poorest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

Cuts in development aid by wealthy countries tend to drive up displacement away from the world's poorest regions, the head of the UN's International Organization for Migration warned in an interview with AFP on Thursday.

From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026

He bought it at an open-air fuel market in Mastung, in Balochistan, Pakistan's biggest and poorest province, where he lives.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026

The street, in one of the poorest areas of Doncaster, is lined with such shops.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Actually in the Shire in Bilbo’s days it was, as a rule, only the richest and the poorest Hobbits that maintained the old custom.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien