impoverished

Example Sentences

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Caers says that KoBold is best positioned to put the Congolese archives online and bring investment to the impoverished country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Even if the regime doesn’t fall, it will be leaderless, impoverished, isolated, besieged, mostly disarmed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

The Senate report tracked at least 25 countries that have received or made deals to take third country nationals as deportees, including remote Uzbekistan and impoverished South Sudan.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

They had not been walked for four weeks before the attack and a dog behaviour expert had described conditions inside Warren's home as "impoverished".

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

For the other eight months he returned to the central plateau of Haiti, doctoring impoverished patients, many of whom had lost their land to a government hydroelectric dam project.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French