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The Luddite movement, which predated the Swing Riots, was led by textile workers convinced that power-operated looms would permanently impoverish the middle class.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Composer Max Richter, another of the artists involved in the album, noted how the plans not only have an impact on musicians but "impoverish creators" across the board, from writers to visual artists and beyond.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025

Niger relies heavily on foreign aid, and sanctions could further impoverish its more than 25 million people.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

"Those who seek to impoverish our country in this manner have declared war against the Nigerian people," he told legislators when reconvening the House of Representatives after a two-month break.

From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2022

If war does destroy property, reduce individuals to beggary, and impoverish nations, then it is unwise to engage in it.

From War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by David Low Dodge

“The selfish-gene model increasingly impoverishes both scientific and popular views of genetics and evolution,” David Dobbs wrote in an essay for Aeon.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

But soil drainage gradually impoverishes the land, posing a threat to local farmers and releasing the CO2 captured by the peatland which are important carbon sinks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

"This debate impoverishes democracy. It's a scrappy debate, in which you provoke, you use debauchery, you joke around," said Janones, who denied accusations that he uses fake news.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2022

Richness impoverishes you; it takes away from us the best we have.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2015

His departure, while it came none too soon for the tired warrior, impoverishes us with the withdrawal of an all-embracing love, and leaves God's poor to suffer to an extent it is impossible to describe.

From History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

Outside music, her philanthropy gave scholarships to impoverished students and supplied more than 200 million books to young readers.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Pyongyang's participation in the war has brought the impoverished country economic and military benefits as well as valuable battlefield experience, analysts say.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Set in Egypt during the 1930s and ’40s, the first entry in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet is a tragic romance between an impoverished Irish writer and the beautiful, mysterious Justine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

The Al-Khair Foundation provides emergency relief and developmental support in "some of the world's most impoverished areas", according to its website.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

That "something” is that, according to Daniel H. Sandweiss of the University of Maine, "the incredibly rich ocean off this incredibly impoverished coast was the critical factor.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Pete Rodriguez, the brotherhood’s western district vice president, called the proposal “outrageous” and suggested it could worsen the homelessness crisis by impoverishing workers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2024

The economic decisions that enriched some people while impoverishing others were made in distant cities and, for the most part, in foreign languages, and few people could discern their origins.

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

Independence came at a tremendous cost, however, since France forced the new republic to pay steep indemnities to compensate French citizens for their property losses for many years, impoverishing the new nation.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Compensation processes “exacerbated, rather than mitigated” negative impacts, impoverishing villagers who lost access to farmland and faced long delays awaiting compensation.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2022

It is a bad thing for them, impoverishing the blood, and often checking the growth.

From Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck by Horatio Alger