as in impoverished
lacking money or material possessions
an area of London where skint punk rockers would hang out
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Will parts of Norway look like Nauru, a formerly lush tropical paradise stripped of its phosphate rock, and now a barren, impoverished cautionary tale?—
Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn,
Forbes.com,
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The owner had purchased it in 2006 through a federal mortgage program designed specifically for people like her: impoverished, first-time homeowners who live in the most rural parts of the United States.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
20 July 2025
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Spurred by climate change, Canadian wildfires have increasingly exacerbated poor air quality across Milwaukee and southern Wisconsin.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
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Of course, poor Michael Landon had passed away way too young.—
Angela Andaloro,
People.com,
23 July 2025
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All the while Lucy finds herself in a love triangle torn between a wealthy finance man and a broke, aspiring actor.—
Yola Robert,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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None of that foursome broke camp on Toronto’s Opening Day roster.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
7 July 2025
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The book, based entirely on a true story according to its writer, detailed the pair’s penniless trek camping along the British coast.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
7 July 2025
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Arnaz’s maternal grandfather, Alberto de Acha, was an executive at rum producer Bacardi & Co. The man born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III in Santiago de Cuba on March 2, 1917, arrived penniless in Miami before his 17th birthday.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
19 June 2025
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The myth of the millionaire on the move is politically useful but empirically bankrupt.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes.com,
20 July 2025
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There’s something exquisitely derailing about spiraling into a plush-toy addiction while emotionally regressing at your mother’s house in Chiang Mai—jet-lagged across three time zones, spiritually bankrupt, and one herbal compress away from a full breakdown.—
Lara Johnson-Wheeler,
Vogue,
31 May 2025
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“Skint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skint. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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