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Recent Examples of underprivileged Jones, who’s entering his second year with the Nuggets after playing college ball at Stanford, used to do community work with underprivileged children in Palo Alto. Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2025 The foundation provides scholarships to underprivileged players, ensuring that talent, not finances, determines opportunity. Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025 Proceeds from the sale of the rose were used to support Goodall’s primate research and her programs aiding underprivileged communities worldwide. Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2025 That child turned into a Guinea worm warrior, now turned into a philanthropist and an activist amongst his people, who is teaching underprivileged communities in South Sudan and building schools. Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for underprivileged
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Adjective
  • There is a mandatory part of the academy scholarship where boys undertake community projects, working with schools in deprived areas close to St James’.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • After lawmakers in Germany determined that anonymous surrenders deprived children of the chance to learn anything about their parentage, Germany passed a confidential-birth law in 2014.
    Alana Semuels, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The district is also looking at ways to close achievement gaps for Latino students, English Learners, students with disabilities and socioeconomically disadvantaged students.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The Salesforce Foundation, which had roughly $400 million in assets by the end of 2023, aims to help disadvantaged students, mainly by trying to improve tech literacy and college preparation.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The United Nations predicts the cost of reconstruction in the impoverished territory is a staggering $70 billion.
    NPR, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Set within the League of Legends universe, the Netflix series follows sisters Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) and Jinx (Ella Purnell), who find themselves on opposite sides of a brewing war between the impoverished undercity of Zaun and the futuristic, wealthy city of Piltover.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s another element of the current concern regarding due process that relates to the fate of poor Cinna.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
  • McDaniel’s debut album Lost Ones delves into his own story of growing up in a poor community in Kentucky, and dealing with mental health struggles, both personally and within his family — as well as McDaniel’s story of being saved during a past suicide attempt years ago.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Volunteers became depressed, irritable, anxious, and withdrawn.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Jeffrey Rignall died in 2000 In the wake of Gacy’s attack, Rignall became depressed and withdrawn, suffering from bouts of vomiting and losing nearly 40 pounds, per The Courier Journal.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Underprivileged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underprivileged. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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