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panhandled

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“She’d panhandled on the street but she gave most of her money away.”

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2020

To some, it’s where local homeless people panhandled harmlessly.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2019

She rehabilitated a homeless man who panhandled outside the shop, and he became a model salesman.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2018

Getting panhandled by the bereft hero — the innocent Candide, with his cup out — she turns him away.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2015

The underground staff scoured the countryside for paper and other supplies and panhandled on the streets of Manila for money.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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