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pauper

[paw-per] / ˈpɔ pər /


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However, this nomad only looked like a pauper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

A Nigerian mum might say: 'Do you want to live your life as a pauper forever?'

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025

It also helped that Crawford was not exactly a pauper and got only marginally outspent in a race that saw over $107 million in expenditures.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2025

Follow the adage "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2022

“God sees fit to let something happen to a Malaga pauper, and Phippsburg pays the bill. It’s a scandal.”

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

The sport of kings to some, the sport of paupers for most.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025

"The RFU keep trumpeting community rugby as the lifeblood of the game, while at the same time seemingly treating them like paupers."

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025

Many people in both America and the United Kingdom found the idea of elected representation for colonists utterly anomalous, as much an outlier as elected representation for paupers or for women.

From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2023

Monica, Danny and James are toiling in the shadow of the entertainment industry — relative paupers who can’t help wondering if they’ll ever be invited to the nearby banquet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022

Sick paupers had to be gotten off the streets and out of the alleyways.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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