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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
immiserate .
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Examples
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Firstly, because carrots are the only things which will work, and secondly, because using sticks immiserates all of us, and I certainly don't want to be immiserated to 'punish' the people who provide my daily bread an butter.
Capitalism as a Benevolent System, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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No one familiar with his atrocious record can be in the least surprised that Bunning was content to be the public face of a political move that not only cannot succeed in the long run, and which intentionally immiserates and impoverishes people -- but which finally costs the government and the states MORE money.
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No one familiar with his atrocious record can be in the least surprised that Bunning was content to be the public face of a political move that not only cannot succeed in the long run, and which intentionally immiserates and impoverishes people -- but which finally costs the government and the states MORE money.
Kara Vallow: Jim Bunning: Too Mean and Weird for the GOP 2010
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Is it really ‘war’ when a major military force – a nuclear state ever expanding - immiserates a mostly defenceless people?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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This week a massive American-British study of some two million souls throughout 80 countries confirms, empirically, that middle age immiserates us all without regard to income, culture, gender, marital status or previous experience.
The Midlife Blues 2008
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This week an American-British study of some two million souls in 80 countries confirms, empirically, that middle age immiserates us all without regard to income, culture, gender, marital status or previous experience.
The Midlife Blues 2008
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Last week a massive American-British study of some two million souls throughout 80 countries confirms, empirically, that middle age immiserates us all without regard to income, culture, gender, marital status or previous experience.
The Midlife Blues 2008
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Hamas therefore immiserates its own people and deliberately provokes Israel in a manner that give the Israelis no alternative -- after 8 years of rockets -- but a military response.
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