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slum

[sluhm] / slʌm /


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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

During the question and answer section, Forbes said her 2023 leadership bid was initially viewed "as a bit of a slum dunk", adding: "I was very much in the lead."

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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

He has faced a concerted challenge from singer-turned-politician Bobi Wine, 43, who styles himself the "ghetto president", after his stronghold in a slum where he grew up in the capital, Kampala.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

Her eyes watered as she emerged from the alleys of the slum slowly, adjusting to the new morning light.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Nubi proposes "gentrification" that upgrades slums like Makoko without displacing residents.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

He has also appeared at demonstrations, and spent Christmas Day visiting some slums and dancing with people in the streets.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 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

Whenever he returned to Boston, he strongly urged Farmer, Ophelia, and Jim to consider starting a PIH project in Lima’s slums.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

Stewart later said he was offended by suggestions he was "slumming it" by moving into US television.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Booted out of his royal Windsor lodgings, was slumming it on the king’s private estate in Norfolk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

They seemed certain to spend their New Year’s slumming it in an undercard bowl and watching their players jump into the transfer portal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

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

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024

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


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