Third World country
Example Sentences
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Cuba’s Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl developed an outsize military that projected unprecedented geopolitical power by a Third World country at the height of the Cold War.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
“Learning to parent a child in a Third World country was interesting,” said Carrie Glazer, who had done humanitarian work in Uganda and long wanted to adopt.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2022
“I feel like I’m living in a Third World country and they just don’t care enough. The will to live is so strong. I want them to know we are all rooting for them.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2021
I lived for several years in a so-called Third World country that is about 96% of African descent.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2018
For example, which is less morally fraught: Stem cell eggs and artificial wombs, or paying a poor woman in a Third World country as an egg donor or surrogate mother?
From Salon • Sep. 19, 2012
