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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

Those who fear ideas, as well as those who view life as mostly transaction, impoverish themselves and our society.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

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

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

In return for all these advantages, the people were heavily taxed, but not to such an extent as to impoverish them, as in Saxony and Austria.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Bayard Taylor

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

But the semantic shift impoverishes our ethical vocabulary.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2014

Without considering the personal advantage, privateering brings great riches into the country; it impoverishes the enemy, and it adds enormously to the popularity of the war.

From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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

And despite the bloodshed, it was a gamble that paid off, reaping countless benefits for the isolated and impoverished country, transforming both its economic and military fortunes.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

It also called for "economic stabilisation" in the impoverished country, which "might narrow the pool from which footsoldiers are drawn".

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

He objected when a collaborator proposed deploying chatbots for actual therapy, saying that “the sort of caring that machines . . . can deliver is very impoverished indeed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Fortune presents her a second chance in the form of an impoverished doctor—in fact, a prince in disguise who has elected to work among the needy.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

It’s not about impoverishing anyone but more about creating a truly healthy region for everyone to live in.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

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

Are we willing to gain wealth by impoverishing others?

From The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch