poverty-stricken
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Born in Chicago in 1955, Prevost was sent to Peru as a missionary in 1985 by the Augustinian order, tasked with transforming the small town of Chulucanas in poverty-stricken Piura region into a Catholic diocese.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
He also represented Alex Saab, who American prosecutors said laundered money for Venezuela’s former strongman, Nicolás Maduro, and oversaw the importation of often-rotten food to a poverty-stricken country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
He was calling from a jail in Jehanabad, a poverty-stricken district and, at the time, a stronghold of left-wing extremism.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024
I think if you take a camera into any rural area or area that's poverty-stricken, it's not gonna look pretty, but somehow we were special.
From Salon ● May 19, 2024
I saw few or no dilapidated houses, with poverty-stricken inmates; no half-naked children and barefooted women, such as I had been accustomed to see in Hillsborough, Easton, St. Michael’s, and Baltimore.
From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
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