as in poverty
the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions
the banquet honored a philanthropist couple who spent their lives working to reduce pauperism in cities throughout the nation
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poverty
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Wyandotte County has a higher proportion of people who are uninsured and more children living in poverty than state and national rates reflect.—
Sofi Zeman
April 6,
Kansas City Star,
6 Apr. 2026 -
Struggling to pay her bills and hosting her fresh-out-of-rehab ex-wrestler father, Jinx (Nick Offerman), Margo starts an OnlyFans account hoping to pull herself and her family out of poverty.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Pauperism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pauperism. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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