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someone who is very poor
- The coverage was usually poor on that site: filming was said to be prohibited, so it was just some desperate pauper with a hidden minivideocam, risking his life for filthy Western currency.p. 82.6
- Despite the fingerprint identity cards now carried by everyone, public security in the pleeblands was leaky: there were people cruising around in those places who could forge anything and who might be anybody, not to mention the loose change — the addicts, the muggers, the paupers, the crazies.p. 27.5
There are no more uses of "pauper" in Oryx and Crake.
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