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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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country
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They would turn the clock back to policies that impoverished and divided our country .
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This is an important issue for impoverished countries with limited food supplies.
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The young of this impoverished landlocked country see no future here.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Crop rotation has not impoverished the soil.
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Many patients worry that paying for treatments will impoverish them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A labourer howls in the nothingness of the blank paper, which is also the empty, impoverished land.
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If excellence is unrecognised, the culture is doubly impoverished.
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My family was impoverished during most of my youth.
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She learned it from impoverished people who had come to her in desperation.
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Should've been large enough for de Verne needs, although he said the wars had impoverished him.
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The kids are mostly minorities; their bleak, impoverished lives stand in stark contrast to the mansions on their maps.
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These clients draw on the bank's supplies to stock soup kitchens, senior lunch rooms and meal programs for impoverished kids.
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This helps explain why pentecostalism is attracting most of its membership among the impoverished majority rather than among the privileged few.