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But my poorness pales in comparison to Tupac’s poverty and not knowing where your next meal is going to come from throughout your adolescence.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023

He explains, however, that with all the sickness and poorness of the people around him, 'it is difficult not to give to people in great want.

From Time Magazine Archive

I do not complain at the poorness of the floor show that they were putting on," he wrote solemnly, "but I recoiled to hear them cry, 'Tuppence for the Guy, sir?'

From Time Magazine Archive

This, in connection with the poorness of the soil for hickories, seems possible may be the reason for the cessation of bearing.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920 by Northern Nut Growers Association

She said nothing—she kept that up; it might even have been to let him go further, if he was capable of it, in the way of poorness of spirit.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 by James, Henry