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tenement

[ten-uh-muhnt] / ˈtɛn ə mənt /


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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Colonial authorities, meanwhile, transform the Worli chawls - tenement housing for cotton mill workers - into makeshift prisons for detained nationalists.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

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

“We lived a teeny tenement apartment on 29th and 2nd Avenue above the Wonderland Blues Bar,” Brooks says.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

Sapo led me inside the old tenement where the storefront butcher shop Casablanca had been been serving up meat to the neighborhood for years.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez




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