be impoverished
Example Sentences
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Dahlia Lithwick: I find the public-facing discourse around shootings to be impoverished, dangerous, and a powder keg on its own terms.
From Slate • Sep. 12, 2025
No one should be left behind or be impoverished by these policies, "otherwise it will be a problem for democracy", he said.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2023
But our way of existing will be impoverished in the process.
From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2023
If current trends continue, Reich said, swaths of boreal forests “will be impoverished, and they might even fall apart or collapse” over the next half-century unless warming slows.
From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022
Denmark is said to be impoverished by the disproportion of the learned to the industrial class; production is insufficient, and too much of a good thing cripples the country.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various
