the poor

noun

: poor people
He gave money to the poor.

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Swift’s modest proposal was that the poor breed their children as food for the elites. Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 Sep. 2025 Clearly, Kyiv is already able to strike deep into parts of Russia where the war was meant to be a distant thing the poor died fighting. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025 But after ownership skimped on payroll the last two years (then fire-sale’d the roster at the trade deadline), Baldelli took the fall for the poor results. Levi Weaver, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025 What the wealthy dismissed as theft was, for the poor, survival. Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the poor

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“The poor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20poor. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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