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Promoting slum clearance and clean water while preventing adulterated food addressed popular grievances while offering competent, uncontroversial government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

I would imagine with some squirrelly pablum about valuing their feedback and pointing out that user experiences may vary because—as no site is likely to admit—someone’s paradise is someone else’s slum, and vice versa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026

She learnt that the child lived in a slum and could not afford to go to school.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

Nagi says that the conversation motivated her to visit the boy's slum community and she offered to spruce up the locality by decorating the walls with murals.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

Although the township did boast some handsome buildings, it could fairly be described as a slum, living testimony to the neglect of the authorities.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

He left a peerless catalogue of songs articulating the life of working class Irish immigrants, with tales of finding love in the slums littered with references to literature, mythology and the Bible.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

Karachi has several Bengali neighbourhoods, mainly slums, which residents say have housed Bengalis since before East Pakistan became Bangladesh.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

Relating his journey to becoming a visual storyteller, Thomas recalled growing up in “one of the worst slums of Philadelphia,” sitting on his front stoop reading Shakespeare, James Baldwin and Tennessee Williams, immersed and transported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025

The wonderful century also saw the plunder of the Earth’s resources, suffering in urban slums and humanitarian catastrophe in Europe’s colonies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

He was as familiar with its gleaming mansions as its darkest slums.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Brooke Henderson, 17, slummed it on the Symetra Tour this week and won.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013

But I never slummed my pen, my lads, whate’er it might contain, While shearin’ for old Tom Patterson, on the One Tree Plain.

From The Old Bush Songs by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

When the slumming Ponce, who lives somewhere else and who picked up a semblance of education, tries to explain that all earthly agriculture is reliant on bees, he gets blowback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The formidable actress is slumming here, unable to connect with the thin character or material.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024

Hollywood did a lot more for this great fiction writer — giving him some of his best material — than he ever did for Hollywood as a slumming, indifferent screenwriter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023

That King writes about these things while alluding to Sontag and Updike and Penelope and Odysseus without once seeming like she is otherwise slumming is part of her achievement.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2022

I flinched at the slumming comment, but the truth was our businesses benefited from the tourism.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu