squalid
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The police tailed his children to a remote, squalid farmhouse where they stood alone in the courtyard for no apparent reason.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
In 2014, he won a Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for an investigation into abusive landlords and squalid conditions in publicly subsidized housing for Tampa’s homeless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Thousands of Rohingya have tried in recent years to leave Cox's Bazar, where more than a million refugees forced to flee war-torn Myanmar's Rakhine state live in squalid conditions.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
When the BBC visited the London properties with the Met police, officers said squalid conditions were the norm when it comes to cuckooed premises.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
I had found the boy in squalid conditions, wasting away in an orphanage.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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