Recent Examples on the WebThe toll of the pandemic and climate change keep exposing, in ways big and small, the grim inequities between the world’s haves and have-nots.—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023 Then came the dissolution of the Southwest Conference, casting the league’s have-nots to the wind.—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2023 This might ruffle some fan feathers, but Palmera City does a good job of showing the division between the haves and have-nots.—Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2023 The explosion of tourism over the years, however, has strained natural resources and astronomically driven up the cost of living – dividing the haves and have-nots in ways that felt untenable even before the fire’s devastation.—Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 15 Aug. 2023 At that point, there will be more have-nots than haves in major college football.—Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023 While the topic was the dress code at a fine dining restaurant in Akron, comments from around the world reflected a social divide between liberals and conservatives, haves and have-nots, and angry folks with a gripe to air.—Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 29 July 2023 Sternlicht argued this is evidence the office sector will be split into haves and have-nots in the coming years—and many have-nots may go out of business.—Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 21 July 2023 But behind their prosperity is a workforce divided into haves and have-nots, based on their employment status.—Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 5 July 2023 See More
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