as in poverty
the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions
each country has its own standard of poorness, and one nation's needy inhabitant can be another's fairly well-off citizen
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Noun
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Each job created represents stability for a family, hope for a neighborhood, and a step toward breaking cycles of poverty and violence.—
Keith Howard,
New York Daily News,
7 Feb. 2025 -
Their bill prioritizes families making up to 300% of the federal poverty limit (roughly $93,600 for a family of four) for the first year.—
Sally Krutzig,
Idaho Statesman,
7 Feb. 2025
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The ceaseless movement of staff around the world compounds this nebulous sensation of perpetual indigence.—
Nick Foulkes,
theweek,
7 Nov. 2024
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In its first three years, Bolsa Família cut extreme poverty by 15 percent, and by 2014, the percentage of Brazilians living in indigence had been slashed to less than three percent—a level the World Bank considers equivalent to eradication.—
Jonathan Tepperman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Dec. 2015
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One of Thompson’s signature innovations was to use a predictive algorithm to kick ailing and disabled Medicare patients out of nursing homes and rehabilitative programs, causing untold misery and penury.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2024
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Still, the movement to end dependency and penury in old age gathered force and triumphed with the enactment of Social Security in 1935, the crowning achievement of the New Deal.—
Jonathan Rauch,
The Atlantic,
10 Dec. 2024
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“Poorness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poorness. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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