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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

Botswana's president Mokgweetsi Masisi told German media this would only impoverish Botswanans.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2024

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

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

The judge said those convicted had by their actions helped impoverish Mozambique's people.

From Reuters ● Dec. 7, 2022

He could, moreover, give excellent reasons why every land that has a seaport is prosperous, for trade does not impoverish people, it enriches them.

From The Strange Story of Rab R?by by M?r J?kai

“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

Because this culture of greed impoverishes all of us, it is, to call it by its true name, destruction.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2012

It is the wealth, however, which impoverishes mankind, exhausting the sources of industry and of enterprise.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

Pruett, who gave birth to Landers’ father, Corky, at 15, had a tough and impoverished youth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

He was the genuine artifact, the son of an impoverished Minnesota miner; a lumberjack and a steelworker in his youth.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

He estimates that arms sales to Russia and the troop deployment have netted the impoverished country close to $10bn.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Watch the video above for an inside look at how front-line cash is transforming Ulan-Ude’s impoverished economy—even as cemeteries and war memorials continue to expand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

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

“But in the longer term, only deeper reforms can prevent slower growth and increasing inequality, an impoverishing combination the region has not seen this century.”

From Reuters ● Sep. 28, 2021

Even impoverishing consumption may produce rapidity of circulation, as in Germany during the war years 1812 and 1813.

From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor