as in deprived
kept from having the necessities of life or a healthful environment
disadvantaged families struggling to get by will be benefited by changes in the tax code
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Recent Examples of disadvantaged
Researchers found that disadvantaged regions of Europe currently have proportionally higher death rates compared to higher-income regions.
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Simmone Shah, Time, 6 May 2025
Listen to this article When former NFL player Walter Mendenhall founded the social enterprise Male Mogul Initiative in 2017, his goal was to positively transform the way young men live and lead in their communities and hopefully alter the trajectory of those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
—Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2025
Children fell behind on meeting educational benchmarks and their mental health suffered; these effects were compounded for socioeconomically disadvantaged kids.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2025
Those from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds were less likely to be prepared.
—Malaka Gharib, NPR, 7 May 2025
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Simmone Shah, Time, 6 May 2025
Listen to this article When former NFL player Walter Mendenhall founded the social enterprise Male Mogul Initiative in 2017, his goal was to positively transform the way young men live and lead in their communities and hopefully alter the trajectory of those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
—Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2025
Children fell behind on meeting educational benchmarks and their mental health suffered; these effects were compounded for socioeconomically disadvantaged kids.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2025
Those from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds were less likely to be prepared.
—Malaka Gharib, NPR, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disadvantaged
Adjective
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But what makes Seller’s story sing is his vivid recollection of a deprived childhood with demanding parents, his first job as a booking agent, and his coming out during the early days of the AIDS epidemic.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
26 Apr. 2025
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Participants who walked faster were more likely to be men, live in less deprived areas, have healthier lifestyles and weigh less.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Eagerly drinking the Kool-Aid is Simone DeWitt (Alcock), a formerly impoverished but deeply ambitious upstart from Buffalo who gets a taste of the lifestyle of the rich and famous as Michaela's uppity assistant.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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His father, a Presbyterian minister, was the executive director of the New York City Mission Society, a social-services nonprofit for impoverished children.—
Dwight Garner,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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That would increase to 40% for productions outside of the Los Angeles area, or in economically depressed areas of Los Angeles.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
23 May 2025
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Escorting the world's loneliest elephant across Asia In 2020, when most of the world was sealed up due to the COVID pandemic, Cher was flying around Asia fighting for Kaavan, a depressed elephant, stuck in a particularly nasty zoo in Pakistan.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
20 May 2025
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McAfee shouted out underprivileged communities, homeless shelters and LGBTQ communities in referencing all the charity work he’s done.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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Initially focused on feeding frontline workers, the foundation now works to assist underprivileged communities, in part by providing culinary training to children in need.—
Nazanin Lankarani,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Disadvantaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disadvantaged. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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