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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

A chihuahua has been rescued from a building destroyed by fire in Perth after surviving for nearly two weeks in the tenement.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025

She worked as a janitress and kept three tenement houses clean.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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