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poor

[poor] / pʊər /






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He said: "It's unfortunate to say the least that an extremely dangerous man was in a position, under a new name, to start a relationship with this poor woman."

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Navarro, a 67-year-old Mexican-born U.S. citizen, said Valadao has done a poor job in office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Maidana said she hopes Pope Leo’s message of caring for the poor will rub off on Milei.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

By Friday, the stocks were on pace for historically poor weeks.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

His poor furless underpelt was no use at all.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

African countries are pushing for the COP31 agenda to include discussions on the tripling of adaptation finance, which aims to help poorer nations pay for measures such as building sea walls or planting drought-resistant crops.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Research has also linked mutations that prevent OXER1 from functioning properly with poorer outcomes in patients with colorectal, pancreatic, and kidney cancers.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Becerra may also be sympathetic to environmental justice communities — poorer neighborhoods, often of color — that have experienced disproportionately negative effects from extraction industries such as oil drilling and mining.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Miami’s luxury Design District qualifies as an Opportunity Zone, a federal program offering tax breaks to encourage investment in poorer areas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

It did not enter his head that a wizard might be ashamed to perform such simple crafts, for he had been a witch-child among poorer folk than these.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

But critics questioned the ethics of withholding the vaccine from some babies, particularly in one of the world's poorest countries, where the infection is widespread.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

This increase was especially large for middle-class households of working age and for the poorest retirement-age households.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Manufacturing hub Vietnam, Southeast Asia's fastest-growing economy, was already importing hydropower from Laos, its poorest neighbour.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

There are also real questions about the sustainability of a system built on subsistence farming in some of the poorest regions on earth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Ever since her pa died, she was also the poorest.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney


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