indigent
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When the center was founded in 1971, it mainly did legal work for clients who were indigent or had civil-liberties complaints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 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
That means the system already profoundly disadvantages indigent asylum seekers — they can’t afford a lawyer, often don’t speak English and have no road map for navigating arcane immigration law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025
Poverty to him was an abstract, distant concept, applicable to the tenants at Tres Marias and the indigent patients his brother Jaime helped; he had never had any direct contact with it himself.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
The family also needs to seem trapped not only as impostors but, more crucially, as indigents.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020
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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