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Recent Examples of underprivileged What To Know New Mexico ranked as the state with the most underprivileged children in WalletHub's 2025 report. Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025 But their rigid version of legality only applies to immigrants from underprivileged backgrounds, those who have no choice but to cross borders without documents in order to survive, to aspire to a dignified life. Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025 In addition to playing for England’s national soccer team over 100 times, Beckham has been recognized for his charitable work with children from underprivileged backgrounds, People magazine reported. Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2025 The event honored tennis legend Andre Agassi and raised funds to support underprivileged youth through tennis and education programs. Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for underprivileged
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Adjective
  • 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
  • Children living in deprived settlements had to travel further to reach a playground, and those playgrounds tended to be smaller than those in less deprived areas.
    Laurie Winkless, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Many of those communities are at the intersection of Milwaukee's most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, according to Census Bureau data.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The episode and accompanying fashion show were in support of Kelce’s charity, 87 and Running, which empowers disadvantaged youth by providing resources and support to their communities in the areas of education, business, athletics, STEM, and the arts.
    Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The caravan, which departed earlier this month, is expected to take weeks to reach its destination, where migrants hope to find higher-paying jobs in Mexico’s capital city, rather than its impoverished south.
    Caitlin McFall, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But the Shah’s failure to provide support to the peasants led to their farms failing, and sent waves of impoverished migrants to Tehran and other Iranian cities—many of whom would later fuel the 1979 revolution.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • My adolescent cells floated away from poor me and traded places with his.
    Betty Gilpin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Women disproportionately suffer chronic disease, on average spend 25% more time in poor health than men, and, on average, experience the final 12 to 14 years of their lives in frail health.
    Maria Shriver, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The writer, known for her trailblazing work in confessional poetry, was clinically depressed and died by suicide at age 30.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Barbeau had been living alone, depressed and isolated since Jessica’s death.
    Jon Michael Varese, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Underprivileged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underprivileged. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.

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