wretchedness

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Noun
  • Demagogues began to blame the labor competition posed by increasing numbers of Chinese immigrants for the miseries of white joblessness and meager pay.
    Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Rubio has apportioned the blame for the recent misery in the region to Iran's leadership.
    Billal Rahman, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Thanks in part to regular double-digit levels of growth in the decades that followed economic liberalization — plus the very recent memory of total destitution — China’s population not too long ago was one of the most optimistic in the world.
    Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • At the same time, the restrictive conditions and lack of access to state support mean people are often forced to stay with exploitative employers, or face destitution and even deportation.
    Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • For communities facing poverty, houses are less likely to be rebuilt to withstand hurricane-force winds.
    Patricia McIlreavy, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Volunteers fill shoeboxes with essentials, school supplies, and toys for children worldwide, especially those facing war, poverty, or disaster.
    Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The developing storm system was forecast to swing off the Oregon and Washington coastline, adding to the region's weather woes, the weather service said.
    John Bacon, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The best way to combat these woes is to moisturize frequently during the winter months with a hydrating serum (more on that later).
    Taylor Lane, Flow Space, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Anderson renders her character’s slow descent into virtual penury and laudanum addiction a genuinely heartrending experience, and her late-in-the-film breakdown about her uselessness stands as one of the decade’s great acting feats.
    IndieWire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • There’s a growing number of technocrats, business leaders and academics who see the current crisis in Gaza as the opportunity to confront the risk of Haredim pulling the country toward theocratic penury.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Well, one option might be to assume that the anonymous cash will be used primarily by criminals and possession of it will be taken to be prima facie evidence of criminality.
    David G.W. Birch, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Provided that the opposition is united in its decision, another electoral contest can serve as a moment for the opposition to marshal evidence of the regime’s criminality and to dial up internal pressure via street-level organizing.
    Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The ceaseless movement of staff around the world compounds this nebulous sensation of perpetual indigence.
    Nick Foulkes, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
  • In its first three years, Bolsa Família cut extreme poverty by 15 percent, and by 2014, the percentage of Brazilians living in indigence had been slashed to less than three percent—a level the World Bank considers equivalent to eradication.
    Jonathan Tepperman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015
Noun
  • There’s hope coursing through every chord, so much so that lyrics feel like a bonus accessory here as opposed to a necessity.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Forest signed 22 players that summer, mainly out of necessity as the core of the team that won promotion were loan players who had to return to their parent clubs.
    Steve Price, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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