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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaffluent
Adjective
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But what makes Seller’s story sing is his vivid recollection of a deprived childhood with demanding parents, his first job as a booking agent, and his coming out during the early days of the AIDS epidemic.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
26 Apr. 2025 -
Participants who walked faster were more likely to be men, live in less deprived areas, have healthier lifestyles and weigh less.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Those from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds were less likely to be prepared.—
Malaka Gharib,
NPR,
7 May 2025
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Chicago Tribune Giovanni Guarino drove from Naples with his girlfriend to bid their final farewells to the Francis, moved by his work to help the young and disadvantaged.—
COLLEEN BARRY,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The pope also appealed to Catholics to get vaccinated, called on richer countries to share their vaccines with developing nations and offered the Vatican’s Pfizer shots to 1,800 homeless and underprivileged people in Rome.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2025
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The nonprofit provides underprivileged kids with a custom birthday cake free of charge.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns each added 23 points and OG Anunoby bounced back from two poor performances by scoring 20 for the Knicks, who can win the series Wednesday night at Boston.—
Brian Mahoney,
Baltimore Sun,
13 May 2025
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This results in a very poor Debt-to-Equity Ratio of 232.7% (against 21.5% for the S&P 500).—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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Their last best hope is to parrot a false narrative that benefits are being cut for the truly needy.—
Stewart Whitson,
Boston Herald,
30 Apr. 2025
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Andrade has said that all the settlement money — resulting from overpayments by the state — should have been returned to Florida to help provide health care for needy residents and that diverting it to Hope Florida and then a political action committee looks to be a crime.—
Jeffrey Schweers,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Infectious disease experts note that the vitamin is most useful in impoverished countries where children are significantly malnourished.—
Katherine Dillinger,
CNN Money,
1 May 2025
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In the meantime, the new administrators warn that the Kennedy Center is impoverished, that the facility has become shoddy and that some of its programming ill serves the American ideal.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The remnants reflected the lives of dispossessed and displaced people.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
19 May 2022
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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
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“Unaffluent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaffluent. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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