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Financial inequality and the widening gap between the haves and have-nots are big issues for a broad comedy to tackle, but scenes like Arj waiting in line for hours to pick up a rich guy's gourmet donut puts those things into an entertaining perspective.—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025 And a look at some federal and state data about Orange County tracked from the start of 2019 through the end of 2023, shows just how badly the local have-nots are being routed.—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 6 Oct. 2025 It’s been a year of haves and have-nots for the industrials, with companies heavily tied to data center construction, electrification, power generation, and aerospace largely outperforming the rest of the sector.—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025 Things will get even worse since the AGI haves will presumably flourish in new ways and far outpace the AGI have-nots.—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for have-not
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