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Every week, Neeta Bhojwani spends hours binge-watching dramas about wealthy men pretending to be poor and angry ghosts out for revenge.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

That means solar systems whose chemistry is very different from ours may be poor candidates in the search for life.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

To be sure, prediction markets can be poor at forecasting, as was shown with one Supreme Court pick years ago.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025

They may be earning little, and their working conditions may be poor, but if their co-worker fails to show up to relieve them, they have no choice but to stay.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2025

Even if Pa could get a deer, it would be poor and thin, not fat and plump as deer are in the fall.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder




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