unaffluent

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaffluent
Adjective
  • Children living in deprived settlements had to travel further to reach a playground, and those playgrounds tended to be smaller than those in less deprived areas.
    Laurie Winkless, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Their comeback may help regenerate deprived economic regions like Italy's Abruzzo.
    Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • Phoenix Children’s Hospital offers mobile health clinics that travelto shelters and disadvantaged communities, providing free medical and behavioral health care to homeless youth from birth to age 24 across the Valley.
    Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • This funding stream, known as Title I, has enjoyed bipartisan support for decades and currently sends roughly $18 billion to schools in disadvantaged communities all over the United States.
    Cory Turner, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • At the United Nations, Damilola Ogunbiyi leads efforts to advance an equitable energy transition that benefits underprivileged communities in the Global South.
    Elisabeth Brier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Code Avengers runs the Digital Navigators program, which provides in-person workshops for underprivileged children around the globe.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Lillian Feldman was born to impecunious Jewish emigres in Cincinnati on July 13, 1927, the twelfth of thirteen children who were encouraged by their mother to draw on the walls.
    News Desk, Artforum, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Among them is the sardonic confidant, St. Quentin; the down-at-the-heels military man, Major Brutt; and the impecunious, high-living chancer, Eddie.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
Adjective
  • There are 577 bridges in Milwaukee, and only 5% are considered to be in poor condition, according to a new Wisconsin Policy Forum report.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Last week, as financial panic escalated following Milei’s party’s poor showing in local elections, Argentina’s central bank spent more than $1 billion of its foreign currency reserves to keep the peso from collapsing.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Their total charitable distributions now exceed $20 million, with 100% of every dollar raised going to needy recipients.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Russini answered a fan question on whether the Falcons are considering trading Cousins to a quarterback-needy team.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Another example of a property-rich district is Anchorage, where far fewer students come from impoverished households, are learning to speak English as a second language or have other special education needs.
    Krista Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Eric Wright of the Klestsel Dehe Wintun Nation headquartered in Williams in the Sacramento Valley said some small tribes like his hope to team up with virtual gaming companies to try to generate revenue for their impoverished isolated communities using the sweepstakes games.
    CalMatters, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Conover keeps his readers waiting for too long, almost half the book, before saying anything about how the San Luis Valley came to be a magnet for the dispossessed.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The remnants reflected the lives of dispossessed and displaced people.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 19 May 2022
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“Unaffluent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaffluent. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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