slum
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During the question and answer section, Forbes said her 2023 leadership bid was initially viewed "as a bit of a slum dunk", adding: "I was very much in the lead."
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Every morning, Shakuntala Devi and Shakiba Bibi - neighbours at a slum in India's capital Delhi - leave their homes, walking from one shop to another in search of a cooking gas cylinder.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
I would imagine with some squirrelly pablum about valuing their feedback and pointing out that user experiences may vary because—as no site is likely to admit—someone’s paradise is someone else’s slum, and vice versa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
“I’ve never been, nor will I ever become a magnate,” Maduro said in a speech at a Christmas dinner in a Caracas slum just before breaking into a folk song.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
This dress could’ve bought a kid in the slum sectors several months’ worth of food.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
Like other reformers, including Catherine Bauer and Edith Elmer Wood, Simkhovitch saw slums through the narrow prism of their deplorable physical conditions, such as overcrowding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
About half of the state's population lives in slums, said University of Lagos professor Timothy Nubi.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
Relating his journey to becoming a visual storyteller, Thomas recalled growing up in “one of the worst slums of Philadelphia,” sitting on his front stoop reading Shakespeare, James Baldwin and Tennessee Williams, immersed and transported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
The PA plan is not to recreate slums, but to make sure that tight-knit communities can be restored.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
It hit the crowded slums of the Barrel hardest.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Brooke Henderson, 17, slummed it on the Symetra Tour this week and won.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013
But I never slummed my pen, my lads, whate’er it might contain, While shearin’ for old Tom Patterson, on the One Tree Plain.
From The Old Bush Songs by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
When the slumming Ponce, who lives somewhere else and who picked up a semblance of education, tries to explain that all earthly agriculture is reliant on bees, he gets blowback.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Booted out of his royal Windsor lodgings, was slumming it on the king’s private estate in Norfolk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
The formidable actress is slumming here, unable to connect with the thin character or material.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024
She’s not mailing it in, but she is for sure slumming.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
To Bull, it was as if Varney were an exiled prince slumming it among the foot soldiers of the world.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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