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tenement

[ten-uh-muhnt] / ˈtɛn ə mənt /


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Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor came from little in a material sense, he from tiny Pin Point, Ga., she from a Bronx tenement and later a housing project.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

I had lived in a tenement building in New York’s Chinatown.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Roy Porter’s kaleidoscopic portrait of 18th-century England captures high and low society, from stately home to poor tenement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

He was born Walter Menzies Campbell on 22 May 1941 and was brought up in a Glasgow tenement.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

In the fireworks’ diminishing glow, the tenement houses across the street seemed precarious, as though they would collapse into ruin and rubble at any moment.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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