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The concern among some groups is that the lower amount will impoverish people who are ill and have little prospect of getting a job anytime soon.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

The Luddite movement, which predated the Swing Riots, was led by textile workers convinced that power-operated looms would permanently impoverish the middle class.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Niger relies heavily on foreign aid, and sanctions could further impoverish its more than 25 million people.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

"Those who seek to impoverish our country in this manner have declared war against the Nigerian people," he told legislators when reconvening the House of Representatives after a two-month break.

From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2022

Paul wanted a shield against all circumstances in order that no circumstance might unman him and impoverish the wealth of his soul.

From The Whole Armour of God by John Henry Jowett

But soil drainage gradually impoverishes the land, posing a threat to local farmers and releasing the CO2 captured by the peatland which are important carbon sinks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

"This debate impoverishes democracy. It's a scrappy debate, in which you provoke, you use debauchery, you joke around," said Janones, who denied accusations that he uses fake news.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2022

Translating my private, zany experience of a photo of a thrift-shop window into words necessarily impoverishes it, but it captures something of the camp interjection in action.

From Slate ● May 14, 2019

But the semantic shift impoverishes our ethical vocabulary.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2014

On the other hand, the taking of too little food impoverishes the blood and weakens the entire body.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters

It also called for "economic stabilisation" in the impoverished country, which "might narrow the pool from which footsoldiers are drawn".

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Outside music, her philanthropy gave scholarships to impoverished students and supplied more than 200 million books to young readers.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

He objected when a collaborator proposed deploying chatbots for actual therapy, saying that “the sort of caring that machines . . . can deliver is very impoverished indeed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Pereira's worst affected neighborhoods were also its most impoverished, with homeless people, Venezuelan migrants and street vendors in precarious situations bearing the brunt of the impact.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Liccaro, with its corrupt regents and impoverished people, would be easy pickings.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Pete Rodriguez, the brotherhood’s western district vice president, called the proposal “outrageous” and suggested it could worsen the homelessness crisis by impoverishing workers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2024

The economic decisions that enriched some people while impoverishing others were made in distant cities and, for the most part, in foreign languages, and few people could discern their origins.

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

Independence came at a tremendous cost, however, since France forced the new republic to pay steep indemnities to compensate French citizens for their property losses for many years, impoverishing the new nation.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Saied's intervention followed years of economic stagnation and political paralysis, aggravated by an impoverishing lockdown last year, a slow-starting vaccination campaign and street protests.

From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2021

Are we willing to gain wealth by impoverishing others?

From The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch