How to Use immiseration in a Sentence

immiseration

noun

• The result is evident in the immiseration of the poor by socialist regimes abroad.
  — Tomas J. Philipson, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021
• There was money-drunk decadence at the top, raw immiseration at the bottom, and little else: no middle ground—or middle class, for that matter—no mixed bags, no flawed and compromised agency.
  — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2017
• There’s another way in which the immiseration of flyers brings joy to airport retailers.
  — Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017
• Mr Mugabe never saw tragedy in his country’s chaos and immiseration, only meddling by outsiders or vicious threats by rivals.
  — The Economist, 6 Sep. 2019
• Even as the nation has been plunged into immiseration, the titans of the health insurance industry have been absolutely rolling in it this year, in the style of Scrooge McDuck backstroking around his infinity pool on an ocean of coin.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2020
• At a time when millions of Americans face profound immiseration, and with Congress unwilling to deliver relief, the ruling class hardly needs any more glad-handing.
  — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2020
• This is the immiseration of women by law and ideology and families, living in a culture that seems to not only demand but prefer this most intimate violence.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 19 Apr. 2021
• Our criminal legal system produces tremendous harm and immiseration, even death, not just for defendants but for their families and communities.
  — John Pfaff, The New Republic, 21 June 2021
• The group’s reports tend to punctuate the otherwise slow immiseration of climate change; its previous synthesis report, released in 2013, helped inform international climate policy, including the writing of the Paris Agreement.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2021
• Over the past century, international Communism was responsible for almost inconceivable atrocities, including the murder of hundreds of millions of people and the immiseration of more.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 20 July 2017
• Of course, that sort of economic immiseration eventually becomes politically intolerable.
  — Jeff Spross, TheWeek, 28 Jan. 2020

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