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ghetto

[get-oh] / ˈgɛt oʊ /


NOUN
isolated group, field of activity
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In 1943, she, the remaining members of her family and some 250 other prisoners dug a 600-foot underground tunnel using spoons to escape the Jewish ghetto, as he recounted in another Colossus podcast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

The ill-fated 1943 revolt in the ghetto was the Bund’s last stand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

“He could relate to my problems, my environment. The drive, the determination, not to give in to the ghetto, to make something of my life, stems from my relations with him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

One black TikTok user from Croydon called C.Tino posted a response, saying the trend falsely portrayed the area as "ghetto".

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

Black and brown people in ghetto communities must no longer be viewed as the designated enemy, and ghetto communities must no longer be treated like occupied zones.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

“Writing a lullaby helped to preserve the maternal aura that had to be maintained in ghettoes and camps with large populations of women and children.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

Malcolm was convinced that the establishment of the time might tolerate black leaders as long as they stayed in the ghettoes.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2019

And he did so when ghettoes were in revolt and black Americans had become an object of worldwide fascination.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2015

Over the past decade, as gay people have become more accepted and gay ghettoes have begun to empty out, I’ve noticed that the extremely muscled gay aesthetic has begun to fade away, especially among twenty-somethings.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2012

I don’t know if you know it, but there’s a whole circuit of commercial gospel entertainers who have come out of these little churches in the city ghettoes or from down South.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

The Jewish physician survivors were able to tell the histories of Jewish medical resistance in the ghettos and camps.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 9, 2023

The partisans entered ghettos under siege and brought Jews back to the Belarusian forest, where Mr. Bielski had built a community for them.

From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2023

It was the largest of many ghettos across occupied Poland.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

Constructive interventions would have been good not only for African Americans trapped in ghettos, but also for blue-collar workers of all colors, many of whom were suffering too, if less severely.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander



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