slum

Promoting slum clearance and clean water while preventing adulterated food addressed popular grievances while offering competent, uncontroversial government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

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

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

Hussain Ahmed, 20, whose family lives in Machhar Colony, one of Karachi's largest slum areas where most of the population is comprised of Bengalis, does not have Pakistani nationality or an identity card.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

“The mysterious merchling. I wonder what Van Eck did that was bad enough to send Wylan to slum it with us.”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Authorities often attempt to hem in or demolish slums rather than extend electricity, paved roads or schools to them.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

Mr. Mamdani knows full well that rent restrictions produce slums.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

He has also appeared at demonstrations, and spent Christmas Day visiting some slums and dancing with people in the streets.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 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

He moved across the dangerous new frontiers of deep alleyways and roiling slums.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

She prefers slumming it at extraterrestrial honky-tonks with suitors who look like armadillo-plated slugs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

They seemed certain to spend their New Year’s slumming it in an undercard bowl and watching their players jump into the transfer portal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 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

I flinched at the slumming comment, but the truth was our businesses benefited from the tourism.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu