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Swift’s modest proposal was that the poor breed their children as food for the elites.
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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
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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 6 Oct. 2025.
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