indigent
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Five years ago, Devi, the only daughter in a rural, indigent Sri Lankan family and a principal figure in Randy Boyagoda’s “Lords of Serendipity,” made the finals of a spelling competition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
He also raised funds to provide free inoculation for indigent children in Philadelphia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
His 2001 land reform program redistributed government-owned and private land to indigent residents willing to cultivate it.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026
Dueñas, a 2019 ruling from the state’s appellate division that found imposing mandatory fines on indigent people ran afoul of the 8th Amendment, which prohibits excessive fines along with cruel and unusual punishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
Telemarketing, one of the first refuges of the suddenly indigent, can be dismissed on grounds of personality.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
The family also needs to seem trapped not only as impostors but, more crucially, as indigents.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020
The law allows public defenders to represent only indigents.
From Washington Times ● May 1, 2019
When it becomes apparent, with the approach of evening, that the city cannot house all its indigents, those already in the library decide to stay there overnight.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 5, 2019
Nothing fancy or pretentious at this humble site, a resting place established for city indigents in the 1870s.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2019
People swarming in, cities doubling and trebling in numbers of inhabitants, while the fiscal guardians groan over the increasing weight of improvements and the need to care for a large new spate of indigents.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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