poor
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"Some are homeless, some are very poor, there are migrants," Danso said, while others are undocumented and face orders to leave France.
From Barron's β Oct. 16, 2026
ME has no known cure or specific treatment, with patients often relying on off-label medication to manage a condition that can cause more than 200 symptoms, including nausea, headaches, poor cognitive function and brain fog.
From BBC β Oct. 16, 2026
"The crisis of documents is the biggest crisis the poor face in most cases," she said.
From Barron's β Oct. 16, 2026
Part of his job was to raise money from rich countries to help poor ones.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 15, 2026
The poor intern gulped a hasty good-bye while Betsie and I got mother and baby up to the dining room and closed the door on Fred and his work.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Coconut farmer Sombat Chuekrod, 51, from Prachuap Khiri Khan province, south-west of Bangkok, added: "Thai people are already poor. Please don't make us any poorer."
From Barron's β Oct. 16, 2026
That price is paid primarily by the poorer countries where the main ingredient of fishmeal is harvested and processed.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 9, 2026
For decades, rich countries collected low-value plastic and shipped more than a quarter of it to China and other poorer countries that promised to recycle it.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 7, 2026
"There's a wide inequity between women in more affluent areas and women in poorer areas."
From BBC β Oct. 5, 2026
Twenty dollars poorer, we headed back to the theater, Connor’s and Zion’s arms stuffed full of treats.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
In Yemen, one of the world's poorest countries, ordinary civilians are paying the price for the renewed fighting, with more than 200,000 people displaced since July, according to UN data.
From Barron's β Oct. 9, 2026
It is one of the poorest areas of France, home to a large population of recent immigrants from the developing world.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 8, 2026
If you look within that poorest 20%, you’d see that 10% of people have credit-card balances worth over 20% of their income.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 8, 2026
Public Health Minister Maree Todd noted that two out of three Scottish adults are overweight or obese, with those living in the poorest areas worst affected.
From BBC β Oct. 1, 2026
His assignment: to visit Chicago’s poorest black neighborhoods with a clipboard and a seventy-question, multiple-choice survey.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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