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Recent Examples of have-not
Central Florida is slowly becoming the land of the haves and have-nots.
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Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2025
Elsewhere, the haves thrived, and have-nots continued to tread water.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 31 July 2025
In the newest from the author of These Violent Delights, two virtual nations are embroiled in a war between haves and have-nots.
—Rebecca Dazenbaker, People.com, 15 July 2025
To me, that shows the divide between the haves and have-nots in the NHL is only growing wider, and not many people really expect the contenders to disappoint (or at least, aren’t ready to predict it with any sort of confidence).
—The Athletic Nhl Staff, New York Times, 12 July 2025
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Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2025
Elsewhere, the haves thrived, and have-nots continued to tread water.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 31 July 2025
In the newest from the author of These Violent Delights, two virtual nations are embroiled in a war between haves and have-nots.
—Rebecca Dazenbaker, People.com, 15 July 2025
To me, that shows the divide between the haves and have-nots in the NHL is only growing wider, and not many people really expect the contenders to disappoint (or at least, aren’t ready to predict it with any sort of confidence).
—The Athletic Nhl Staff, New York Times, 12 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for have-not
pauper
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The time-traveler received terrible, albeit false, news in Episode 6: A midwife who’d been paid to lie informed him that Julia and their baby had died during childbirth, their bodies thrown in a pauper’s grave.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
5 Sep. 2025
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The woman shares that Julia was buried in an unmarked grave as a pauper.—
Lincee Ray,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Have-not.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/have-not. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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