slum
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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
Or that the public housing she championed would itself deteriorate so badly that, by 1990, the federal government would label much of it as “severely distressed”—and demolish it for having become a latter-day slum.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
Murals, sculptures and other works depicting Hernandez have been inaugurated recently, including a large painting of his face on a wall in Petare, the biggest slum in Caracas.
From Barron's • Oct. 19, 2025
For them, elements of Jenrick's slum comments ring true.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2025
“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
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