pauperize
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Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Runaway price boosts might wipe out savings, pauperize individuals, bring down governments —but usually in only one or a few countries at any specific time, and for what seemed fairly clear reasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
A limited endowment fund would be helpful, but too large endowment tends to pauperize a local institution.
From Society Its Origin and Development by Henry Kalloch Rowe
Which course would be most sure to pauperize them utterly?
From White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor by Louis Albert Banks
“Sure they do,” Billy agreed, “only Nancy has kind of given up her struggle not to pauperize them.”
From Outside Inn by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Kelley
"Citizens are being pauperized left, right and centre, why does the citizenry of this country deserve so uncaring & heartless a leadership?"
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
Iran, after all, is not the only Muslim country with an urban westernized elite that’s been decimated by dictatorship and pauperized by decades of war.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
“Haiti was immediately quarantined and pauperized into the forced dysfunction of a postcolonial state,” literary scholar Nick Nesbitt has written, “hamstrung by the terrified slave-holding powers that then controlled the globe.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021
“Massive economic mismanagement coupled with spiraling corruption have pauperized large segments of the Arab people,” said Fawaz Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2019
The old man who came shuffling slowly down the path was gaunt with the leanness of want, and unkempt with the squalor of the hopelessly pauperized.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
Banks stopped giving out money, instantly pauperizing hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, who couldn’t access their accounts even as they watched the value of their savings wither away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
Coal operators were flayed for "pauperizing" the industry, the U. S. Government was asked to lend a helping hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three years ago it would have been hard to find one of them who would not have been ready to denounce the pauperizing effect of the dole.*
From Time Magazine Archive
But by humiliating and pauperizing Germany, the victors contributed to the conditions out of which Nazism arose.
From Time Magazine Archive
How often I have heard him say that the Vaughans were pauperizing all the common people about Pentre, and putting every one else in a most unpleasant position.
From The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
