beggar
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"It's just garbage... the clothes you can't even wear, you wouldn't even give to a beggar," Akoth said.
From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025
He is best known for a simple but profound act of compassion — sharing his cloak with a freezing beggar on a winter’s night.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2025
“In any other country, if you see a beggar, it’s clear he’s a beggar,” said Habib Kareem, 26, a lawyer in Islamabad, the capital.
From New York Times • May 19, 2024
But over the following years, purported sightings of Majorana multiplied: as a beggar in Naples, a monk in Calabria, and a vagabond in South America.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 20, 2023
So I gave her an American dollar and she looked at it and said, “Syaujye”—Miss—“we are in America now. Even a beggar can starve on this dollar.”
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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