as in poverty
the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions
her claims of impecuniousness rang false when we noticed the luxuries she had bought for herself
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Noun
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North Side schools have remained dominant in bringing in this outside funding, but some higher-poverty South and West Side campuses such as Kenwood increasingly held their own.—
Mila Koumpilova,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2026 -
Those concerns already exist within New Haven, and leaders would need to balance the existence of more than $1 billion in combined economic investment into local quantum efforts with the needs of a city where one quarter of residents lived in poverty in 2023.—
P.R. Lockhart,
Hartford Courant,
22 June 2026
Noun
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So the roughly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza are now living in greater misery than ever.—
Thomas L. Friedman,
Mercury News,
16 June 2026
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Knicks fans know all about the misery part.—
Sean Woods,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2026
Noun
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Recent evidence suggests more retirees are working out of necessity.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
20 June 2026
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In response, the store decided to move its operations elsewhere and began to focus on raising money for necessities.—
Ray Campos,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
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“Impecuniousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impecuniousness. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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