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indigent

[in-di-juhnt] / ˈɪn dɪ dʒənt /


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Ross, according to his website, has represented more than 10,000 indigent defendants and completed more than 110 jury trials.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 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

As a young immigration lawyer in California’s Central Valley, Matthew Barragan cut his teeth defending the rights of indigent workers facing deportation.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2025

PIH staff has begun to focus on methods of structuring aid and loans so that in the future the sick and indigent will be the primary beneficiaries.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

By late afternoon, old indigents with hennaed beards filled many of the alleyways, prostrate in nests of discarded twigs.

From New York Times Apr. 8, 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

For 12 years she maintained an appellate practice in California representing indigents on appeal from adverse rulings.

From Slate Jun. 21, 2018

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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