tenement
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The boys’ father started his life in a Lower East Side tenement before apprenticing as a lawyer.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 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
Her family relocated 11 times before she was four years old; they were evicted and had to live with relatives; they moved into a rat-infested tenement building in Philadelphia.
From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025
She could look up and see the stars high above the tenement roofs.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Vocabulary lists containing tenement
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