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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are already poor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where individuals or groups are in a state of poverty at the present time.
Example: "Many families in the region are already poor, struggling to meet their basic needs."
Alternatives: "are currently impoverished" or "are in a state of poverty."
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These are already poor countries, and Ebola has crushed whatever economic progress there was.
Ebola, like many other diseases, mainly menaces those countries that are already poor and struggling.
The refugees are streaming into Ramtha and Mafraq, areas in northern Jordan that are already poor.
Critics say it would be unduly harsh on people who are already poor.
It's a vicious circle because these people are already poor, and when they have these fevers they can't work at all.
And given that the economics of carbon storage are already poor, it is difficult to see many companies taking on the added expense of injecting water, too.
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Britons are already poorer for Brexit because of the devaluation of the pound.
As a result, those of us with disabilities, who are already poorer than the average Sierra Leonian, can expect to have poorer facilities.
Economic growth is already poor.
They were already poor, but the occupation made them destitute.
Subsistence farmers and pastoralists who were already poor became that little bit poorer.
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