beggar
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Whether buying a Porsche 911, paying bills or giving money to a beggar at a stoplight, the payment is made the same way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
"It's just garbage... the clothes you can't even wear, you wouldn't even give to a beggar," Akoth said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
He is best known for a simple but profound act of compassion — sharing his cloak with a freezing beggar on a winter’s night.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025
“But here, you see a beggar and you think to yourself, ‘He’s working for them,’” he added, referring to Pakistan’s powerful intelligence services.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2024
Number one down was a word for beggar, beginning with m and nine letters long.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Tracy said it "beggars belief that they couldn't see any physical assault there".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“To that I can only say they are correct. It beggars belief.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
"Common people, business owners — even beggars — are now fed up. Justice has been sent into exile."
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
Baroness May said it "beggars belief" that the Hicks were still having to fight to have the "truth acknowledged" about what had happened to their daughters.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
They headed up Church Street, a wide avenue crowded with businessmen in top hats and beggars and fancy ladies in wide skirts.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
A worse sin, even, than Amin’s expulsion in 1972 of every last Ugandan Asian, an act that was wildly popular with black Ugandans but which beggared Uganda almost overnight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
Even in a country used to royal spectacle, that parade beggared description: 19 military bands and 4,000 troops, stretching a full mile from the palace gates along the mall and around the corner into Whitehall.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2023
Before his removal, Mr Gove had said it "beggared belief" that he was still in post.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2022
If you thought the scot-free museum heist beggared belief, then you underestimate Elektra and her imagination.
From Salon ● May 2, 2021
Harren had beggared the riverlands and the Iron Islands alike to ornament his dream.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
"It's beggaring the entire Forest Service budget," Safford said.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2022
But beggaring the workers who trusted promises made by their employers, their unions and their government is not the answer.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2018
It would have restricted development on grouse habitat, potentially beggaring states such as Wyoming which collects three-fifths of its revenues from energy companies.
From Economist ● May 3, 2018
Ervin was wounded twice during his 18 months in France, then earned a postwar degree from Harvard Law School, forever beggaring his self-description as "just a country lawyer."
From Time Magazine Archive
Over the metropolitan area, the scene was one beggaring description.
From Spawn of the Comet by H. Thompson (Harold Thompson) Rich
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