gentrify
Example Sentences
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The horizontal city is just too big to fully gentrify; there was always another neighborhood where an artist could find studio space, or a gallery could open up shop.
From Los Angeles Times
And the remodeling of East London into a gentrified glass forest, a minor plot point, has only just begun.
From Los Angeles Times
California’s 34th District is overwhelmingly composed of renters and includes some of the most densely populated working-class neighborhoods in the country, as well as some of the most rapidly gentrifying sections of Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times
But as it moved through the gentrified streets, the initially peaceful protest turned ugly.
From BBC
Some of the neighborhoods currently at the center of debate were first gentrified by Mexicans.
From Los Angeles Times
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