impoverished

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UN chief Antonio Guterres will visit gang-ravaged Haiti on Tuesday to show solidarity with victims of violence in the impoverished Caribbean nation long plagued by political, economic and security woes.

From Barron's • Jun. 16, 2026

Local officials said dozens of lenders, under pressure to increase balance sheets to attract foreign investors, signed up impoverished borrowers with little regard for their ability to repay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Fujimori began her election day having breakfast in the Lima suburb of San Juan de Lurigancho, the most populous district in Peru, where impoverished neighbourhoods crowd the steep, dusty mountains.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

It has also co-opted the economy, so that Sudan’s many riches bankroll the belligerents even as most Sudanese are impoverished.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

Bologne, the first mixed-race colonel in the French Army, was thereupon abandoned by all his previous patrons and friends, and died in impoverished obscurity.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall