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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As long as they had their beloved stock market, they seemed not to mind their relative penury .
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But penury , though exasperating enough, was not the whole of his distress.
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From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into penury by conceding 18 unanswered points.
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If any doctor had depended on us for his living, then he would have died in penury .
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It transforms a state of wealth into a state of penury .
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The show went into penury , I think.
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While the rich could flaunt their wealth the numerous urban poor lived in a state of penury .