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
Within San Diego County, only about 21% of socioeconomically disadvantaged students met the English language arts standard — compared with 70% of students who weren’t disadvantaged.
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Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
The novella unspools Hamida’s subsequent encounters with other disadvantaged women.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
About 60% of Crandon students are economically disadvantaged, according to the DPI.
—Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
The Skechers Foundation, established in 2010 to help children in need, invests in a global network of charitable organizations dedicated to individuals with diverse abilities and in empowering disadvantaged families.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
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There is a mandatory part of the academy scholarship where boys undertake community projects, working with schools in deprived areas close to St James’.—
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After lawmakers in Germany determined that anonymous surrenders deprived children of the chance to learn anything about their parentage, Germany passed a confidential-birth law in 2014.—
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The United States must step away from war and send food to Venezuela’s impoverished people.—
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Leaning into the superstition that someone with albinism can bring wealth to those in need, Panay’s story follows a young boy with albinism (Boubacar Dembèlè), whose voice is believed to hold special powers that can protect impoverished miners risking their lives for gold.—
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Countries such as the Netherlands and Canada that passed similar bills have gone on to expand this type of legislation to allow doctors to give lethal medication to the depressed and other people with mental illnesses.—
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Yes, our political leaders have given some of us reason to be resentful, cynical and even depressed.—
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On the other end of the spectrum are our urban and rural districts which have a substantially lower tax base and a larger number of underprivileged and non-native English Language speakers.—
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Mourning co-founded his own family foundation in 1997, and six years later founded the Overtown Youth Center in Miami, a community center dedicated to giving underprivileged kids access to support, mentorship, academic help, after-school programs and enrichment opportunities.—
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“Disadvantaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disadvantaged. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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