destitution
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After years of insurgencies, residents in eastern Congo are accustomed to food shortages, inflation and destitution.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
"If we violate the ban, we face prison. If we comply, we face destitution," one unnamed farmer in Helmand province told BBC Pashto this summer.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025
The destitution will not just be political and moral, it will be economic too.
From Salon • May 29, 2025
Pushed out by civil war, economic destitution, and political repression, thousands of refugees from Cuba, Haiti, and El Salvador began to arrive to America.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2025
I could hardly tell how men and women in extremities of destitution proceeded.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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