be impoverished
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Dahlia Lithwick: I find the public-facing discourse around shootings to be impoverished, dangerous, and a powder keg on its own terms.
From Slate • Sep. 12, 2025
No one should be left behind or be impoverished by these policies, "otherwise it will be a problem for democracy", he said.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2023
But our way of existing will be impoverished in the process.
From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2023
If current trends continue, Reich said, swaths of boreal forests “will be impoverished, and they might even fall apart or collapse” over the next half-century unless warming slows.
From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022
The school must have new blood, or it will soon be impoverished and in time die.
From Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman