as in deprived
kept from having the necessities of life or a healthful environment
disadvantaged families struggling to get by will be benefited by changes in the tax code
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Recent Examples of disadvantaged
Our goal is to expose disadvantaged kids to sailing and kindle within them the passion sailors share.
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Conor Mastromarco, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
Additionally, the lawsuit raised concerns about the project's possible effects on Austin's traditionally economically disadvantaged and nonwhite neighborhoods, particularly in East Austin.
—Beck Andrew Salgado, Austin American-Statesman, 1 Nov. 2024
Australia has struggled for decades to reconcile with its Indigenous citizens, who make up 3.8% of the country’s 27 million population, and are, by most socio-economic measures, the most disadvantaged people in the country.
—Reuters, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
The king reported opposed the previous British government's policy of sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda for processing and set up The Prince's Trust, his most successful project, in the hope of helping disadvantaged people in the U.K.'s inner cities.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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Conor Mastromarco, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2024
Additionally, the lawsuit raised concerns about the project's possible effects on Austin's traditionally economically disadvantaged and nonwhite neighborhoods, particularly in East Austin.
—Beck Andrew Salgado, Austin American-Statesman, 1 Nov. 2024
Australia has struggled for decades to reconcile with its Indigenous citizens, who make up 3.8% of the country’s 27 million population, and are, by most socio-economic measures, the most disadvantaged people in the country.
—Reuters, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
The king reported opposed the previous British government's policy of sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda for processing and set up The Prince's Trust, his most successful project, in the hope of helping disadvantaged people in the U.K.'s inner cities.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disadvantaged
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Yet the contrast is sharp between how AI is used in the experimental school—nestled within an abundance of human attention—and how it is used in more deprived circumstances.Allison Pugh, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2024
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This indicated that the animals were experiencing some internal signals of their deprived state, and potentially craved salt as a way to boost their blood volume without diluting ion levels.Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 28 Nov. 2024
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Several factors skew those amounts up and down by district, with districts that have a higher rate of property tax revenue receiving less from the state, while those with higher rates rates of impoverished, disabled or homeless students receive more.Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 24 Dec. 2024
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Its citizens are malnourished and impoverished; more refugees have left Venezuela than Syria or Ukraine.Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2024
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Half of Wisconsin high schoolers reported feeling anxious, a third depressed and a fifth self-harming, according to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey in 2021, Antigo, a town of about 8,000 and the county seat of Langlade County, is no different.Rebecca Loroff, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
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Starting with him all depressed, doing a team-up, switching sides, going through this whole emotional journey with his grandfather, and everything that that entails as well.Josh Weiss, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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He was elected to Congress in 1948, gaining acclaim for his promise to provide underprivileged children a free trip to Washington, D.C. to see Congress in action—at his own expense.Paul Glenshaw, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 July 2024
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The program aims to teach leadership skills to kids through caddying, and 50 Evans Scholars — a full-tuition and housing scholarship for underprivileged, high-achieving caddies — have come out of the program.Max Scheinblum, The Denver Post, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Disadvantaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disadvantaged. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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