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Example sentences for: destitution

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Within months, the panic had reduced thousands of people to sudden destitution.
Now that Congress and President Clinton have opted to use the threat of utter destitution to dissuade poor teen-agers and women from having children on the public dole, it's time to revive a more humane, and perhaps more effective, proposal with the same objective.