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as in bankrupting
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impoverishing
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See video … WATCH TOM HOMAN – With a secure border, the US is bankrupting cartels.—
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FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025 -
Yet either change could risk bankrupting the program.—
Nathaniel Weixel,
The Hill,
3 Aug. 2025
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First, McDonald and Sydney Colson suffered season-ending injuries in the same game against Phoenix, completely depleting Indiana’s point guard depth.—
Sabreena Merchant,
New York Times,
25 Aug. 2025
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Trump’s 2024 reëlection PAC received ten million dollars from the multinational conglomerate British American Tobacco, which farms an especially polluting, soil-depleting, and pesticide-intensive crop, and which has been sued for profiting from child labor.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
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Conversely, consuming healthy amounts of iron and vitamin D was associated with hair growth.—
Brian Mastroianni,
Health,
5 Sep. 2025
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Such downsides are among the reasons many people opt against consuming too much cream cheese over a short period of time.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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For more than a century, the region has been caught in a thrilling but exhausting economic romance.—
Reid Rasner,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Jones remained on Ohio's death row for decades, exhausting most of his appeals, until Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Wende Cross overturned his murder conviction, freed him from prison and granted him a new trial two years ago.—
Dan Horn,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
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And broadcasting your irritation too loudly risks ruining the atmosphere for everyone else just as much as their yelling or off-key chants.—
Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott,
Southern Living,
6 Sep. 2025
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Just as Alexis Bellino flubbed her second chance by aligning herself too closely with Johnny J, an Ed Hardy snapback that refuses to die, Gretchen is ruining hers by trying to relitigate things from the Obama Administration.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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The French prime minister was widely expected to lose the motion after failing to win support from political rivals on both the right and left for 2026 budget plans aimed at reducing the country's yawning budget deficit.—
Ganesh Rao,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025
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At Tufts University, scientists have developed a new drug that aims to boost weight loss while also reducing the nausea, muscle loss and weight regain associated with popular GLP-1 medications.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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And the work continues off planet as well; astronauts living on the ISS exercise hard every day to stave off the bone loss and muscle wasting that long stays in microgravity induce.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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New rules To reduce time-wasting, goalkeepers will concede a corner for holding on to the ball for more than eight seconds.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
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Even after spending £420m, Liverpool are arguably a little light in a couple of areas.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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Enyedi shifts between the three storylines at will, sometimes spending several minutes in one only to cut to another for a few seconds and then over to the third.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Impoverishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impoverishing. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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