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beggars 1 of 2

noun

plural of beggar
as in hoboes
a person who lives by public begging the pitiful beggars that are such a common sight in underdeveloped countries

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verb

present tense third-person singular of beggar
as in impoverishes

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Recent Examples of beggars
Noun
Dhaka’s rundown streets peppered with the homeless, vendors and child beggars. — Miriam Balanescu, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2026 Robert Pattinson’s big outburst in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ has gone viral—here’s the ‘beggars’ meme, explained. — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026 The War In times of peace, Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) had hosted parties in their palace for all — even beggars were welcome. — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 18 July 2026 Gobert was chief among the beggars imploring his teammates for a shred of consistency on that end of the floor. — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 27 Apr. 2026 In the old days beggars were drawn and quartered in that square. — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025 In Havana, beggars are ubiquitous. — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025 Got a lot of mountains to climb, had to leave some beggars behind. — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025 Indeed, the beauty of New Orleans proper was found in its colorful variety of humans—the loons and cons, the beggars and peddlers. — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beggars
  1. hoboes
  2. bankrupts
  3. mendicants
  4. ruins
  5. panhandlers
  6. busts
  7. bums
  8. parasites
Noun
  • The former, in which Burnett and Hamilton did a song-and-dance routine as Dust Bowl-era hobos, marked the first of several times that the two performed together.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • From oversized, slouchy hobos to structured East-West silhouettes and laptop-ready work totes, this season’s best suede bags deliver a luxurious polish that will elevate every fall wardrobe.
    — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
Definition of hoboes
Verb
  • The 2020s have been a decade of compounding American institutional failure — a pandemic, political rupture, an affordability crisis, student loan servicers treated as adversaries, a healthcare system that bankrupts the sick, and a growing sense that the system is not working as advertised.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
Definition of bankrupts
Noun
  • Throughout much of Buddhist history, and particularly in Theravada Buddhist contexts, mindfulness and its associated meditation methods have been the purview of mendicants (monks and nuns), who used mindfulness meditation to achieve trance states (jhana) leading to nirvana.
    — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • But those states also have Republican governors, who would have raised holy hell if their constituents had been menaced by these roving mobs of mendicants.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 Nov. 2025
Definition of mendicants
Verb
  • Many of them have rides, like the Mexico pavilion’s The Gran Fiesta Tour starring the Three Caballeros, which is inside a replica of that country’s iconic Chichen Itza Mayan ruins.
    — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
  • And that’s a bit of a problem, because nothing ruins the allure of the new and novel quite like ubiquity.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of ruins
Noun
  • Some worry about robots replacing human jobs, even panhandlers.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • But in a plea reached in September, Alameda County prosecutors allowed Frederic, an Orlando resident, to plead no contest to a lesser offense of obstructing a public roadway, a misdemeanor count more typically associated with the prosecution of aggressive panhandlers.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2025
Definition of panhandlers
Verb
  • Jordan Dejesus busts a 51 yard run for Winter Park and the Wildcats are inside the red zone.
    — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The Rolling Stones frontman busts a move in a new video beneath a glittering disco ball.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of busts
Noun
  • Within the often zany and slapstick realm of Bob’s Burgers, Tina still manages to steal the show with her singular voice, romantic fantasies, and obsessions with unicorns and boy bums.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Kennedy’s Albany is a vital, violent place, a hothouse of gangsters, pool hustlers, bums, crooked politicians, and showgirls.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of bums
Noun
  • For example, before vaccines kick in, sharing a litter box with another house cat risks transferring parasites.
    — Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • But much of it appears to be little more than the remains of viruses and other molecular parasites.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of parasites

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