become poorer

Example Sentences

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If wars destroy wealth or scarce oil drives up production costs, the world’s economies will become poorer.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Since then, official data shows the area has become poorer still and last May, people decided to toss the political dice once more by voting Reform.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

“The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer — a group I now belong to,” said Mondabric, the Le Pen voter in Béziers.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2022

Subsequently, poor neighborhoods become poorer, and residents’ relationships with social institutions meant to alleviate poverty and inequality — like the criminal legal system — deteriorate.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2022

Still, unless something was done, matters would become worse; the poor would become poorer, and the slaves more numerous, and the state would descend more rapidly into the yawning abyss beneath it.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir