as in deprived
kept from having the necessities of life or a healthful environment
disadvantaged families struggling to get by will be benefited by changes in the tax code
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Recent Examples of disadvantaged
In addition to grade and test scores, the district implemented in 2020 the use of socioeconomic tiers based on neighborhood and extra points for attending schools skewed more economically disadvantaged, homelessness, being in DCF care and living in Boston Housing Authority homes.
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Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
Phoenix Children’s Hospital offers mobile health clinics that travelto shelters and disadvantaged communities, providing free medical and behavioral health care to homeless youth from birth to age 24 across the Valley.
—Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
This funding stream, known as Title I, has enjoyed bipartisan support for decades and currently sends roughly $18 billion to schools in disadvantaged communities all over the United States.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
While accepting the award, Union reflected on how her unwavering desire to serve disadvantaged communities laid the groundwork for business ventures.
—Giana Levy, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
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Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
Phoenix Children’s Hospital offers mobile health clinics that travelto shelters and disadvantaged communities, providing free medical and behavioral health care to homeless youth from birth to age 24 across the Valley.
—Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
This funding stream, known as Title I, has enjoyed bipartisan support for decades and currently sends roughly $18 billion to schools in disadvantaged communities all over the United States.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
While accepting the award, Union reflected on how her unwavering desire to serve disadvantaged communities laid the groundwork for business ventures.
—Giana Levy, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disadvantaged
Adjective
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Children living in deprived settlements had to travel further to reach a playground, and those playgrounds tended to be smaller than those in less deprived areas.—
Laurie Winkless,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Their comeback may help regenerate deprived economic regions like Italy's Abruzzo.—
Ruth Sherlock,
NPR,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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But the Shah’s failure to provide support to the peasants led to their farms failing, and sent waves of impoverished migrants to Tehran and other Iranian cities—many of whom would later fuel the 1979 revolution.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Her existence in the vibrant capital city of Sepphoris brings into questions some of our traditional assumptions of Mary as an impoverished illiterate from a backwater rural village with no exposure to Greco-Roman culture.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The writer, known for her trailblazing work in confessional poetry, was clinically depressed and died by suicide at age 30.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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Barbeau had been living alone, depressed and isolated since Jessica’s death.—
Jon Michael Varese,
The Atlantic,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That child turned into a Guinea worm warrior, now turned into a philanthropist and an activist amongst his people, who is teaching underprivileged communities in South Sudan and building schools.—
Michal Ruprecht,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
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At the United Nations, Damilola Ogunbiyi leads efforts to advance an equitable energy transition that benefits underprivileged communities in the Global South.—
Elisabeth Brier,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Disadvantaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disadvantaged. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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