pauperize

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Recent Examples of pauperize Ironically, in Cuba, a country pauperized by a Marxist model for the past 61 years, there is a growing public cry demanding change. Otto Reich, National Review, 8 Apr. 2020
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Verb
  • This is the opportunity to seek a lasting agreement that benefits both Iranians and the world, one that includes the majority of Iranians who reject a regime that steals their resources, isolates their country, and impoverishes them.
    Roya Boroumand, Time, 9 July 2025
  • The universe may indeed be mysterious, but our response to this technological revolution will determine whether that mystery enriches or impoverishes the human experience.
    John Werner, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • But even back then, legislators feared that the cost of covering long-term care would bankrupt the Medicare program, as law professor Sidney Watson recounts in her review of this history.
    Kat McGowan, NPR, 20 June 2025
  • If your goal were to bankrupt America and destabilize the world, dragging us into another endless Middle East war would be the way to do it.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
Verb
  • Now a wonderful memory of the occasion will be ruined in my memories.
    Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2025
  • The ceiling was now on the floor, the world had turned itself upside down, her outfit and her day and her rug were seemingly ruined—and yet she herself was not hurt.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
Verb
  • By such maxims as these, however, nations have been taught that their interest consisted in beggaring all their neighbours.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The fact that not a single senior party official numbered among her copious conspirators beggars credulity.
    Charlie Campbell, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
Verb
  • To reduce background noise when making phone calls or joining in with a video meeting, Headphone (1) has a 4-microphone ENC system that’s backed up by AI.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Using the current policy baseline, the CBO found that the legislation would reduce the deficit by $508 billion.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 1 July 2025

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“Pauperize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pauperize. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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