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- verb   Simple past tense and past participle of 
pauperize . 
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Examples
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He's proud that teachers, child care workers, ambulance drivers, and many more will be pauperized to pay for the tax cuts he handed out to his corporate masters.
Dave Zirin: Gov. Scott Walker Puts Out Fire With Gasoline Dave Zirin 2011
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He's proud that teachers, child care workers, ambulance drivers, and many more will be pauperized to pay for the tax cuts he handed out to his corporate masters.
Dave Zirin: Gov. Scott Walker Puts Out Fire With Gasoline Dave Zirin 2011
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He's proud that teachers, child care workers, ambulance drivers, and many more will be pauperized to pay for the tax cuts he handed out to his corporate masters.
Dave Zirin: Gov. Scott Walker Puts Out Fire With Gasoline Dave Zirin 2011
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He's proud that teachers, child care workers, ambulance drivers, and many more will be pauperized to pay for the tax cuts he handed out to his corporate masters.
Dave Zirin: Gov. Scott Walker Puts Out Fire With Gasoline Dave Zirin 2011
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Emery had been surprised and appalled by the sudden influx of pauperized families to his outpost on the riverbank.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Emery had been surprised and appalled by the sudden influx of pauperized families to his outpost on the riverbank.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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States like South Korea are shifting their alliances so that they are not clients of a failed pauperized nation like the US.
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States like South Korea are shifting their alliances so that they are not clients of a failed pauperized nation like the US.
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States like South Korea are shifting their alliances so that they are not clients of a failed pauperized nation like the US.
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Not only will there not be a single cent raised for the state by taxing oil or tobacco, Schwarzenegger and the Republicans privatized $1 billion from the workman's compensation insurance system, gutted all levels of the education budget, pauperized state workers with a third "furlough" day each month, raided the coffers of local governments, and even gave away the first new oil-drilling leases off the Santa Barbara coast in 40 years.
Joseph A. Palermo: The Republicans Win Big in California! 2009
 
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