penury in the PONS Dictionary

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By the time of his death, he was near penury.
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He thereafter supported himself by teaching; not surprisingly, he died in penury.
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Some royals slipped into penury, while some converted their former palaces into luxury hotels to provide them an income.
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Abandoned by their families, they are doomed to a life of penury.
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He lived in penury in the last decades of his life, far removed from the success he had enjoyed in the 1950s and 60s.
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Nineteenth-century rag-and-bone men typically lived in penury, surviving on the proceeds of what they collected each day.
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It also enabled its author to become a wage-earner and save her family from penury.
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The family were left in penury and his sister later recollected how the siblings would hold each other and weep.
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Foster's own life ended in abject penury, which adds to the poignancy of the lyrics.
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Its 60 years have been a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs, prosperity and penury, bright lights and gloomy emptiness.
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