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Recent Examples of poverty-stricken That’s a long way from living in motels and stealing steaks from grocery stores during his more humble days of being poverty-stricken. Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2025 That’s a long way from living in motels and stealing steaks from grocery stores during his more humble days of being poverty-stricken. Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2025 The neighborhood surrounding it is poverty-stricken, forcing families without cars to frequent the store. Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2024 At the time, Whitechapel was poverty-stricken and overcrowded, with over 76,000 people populating its dilapidated avenues and dwellings. Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poverty-stricken
Adjective
  • Eagerly drinking the Kool-Aid is Simone DeWitt (Alcock), a formerly impoverished but deeply ambitious upstart from Buffalo who gets a taste of the lifestyle of the rich and famous as Michaela's uppity assistant.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • That could mean removing spending from public school meal programs for impoverished children, removing access to health care to people with developmental disabilities, or cutting Social Security payments to even the deficit.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • This tactic is sometimes used to justify letting an employee go under the guise of poor performance.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • The original doesn’t go that deeply into it, but this poor girl was essentially forced to be a teen mom at this time in her life when all of her friends would be graduating high school and dating and thinking about their futures.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 24 May 2025

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“Poverty-stricken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poverty-stricken. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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