gentrify
Example Sentences
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For the past several years, Lincoln Heights residents have opposed the project, for fear it would gentrify their mostly Latino and Asian working class neighborhood, and risk community exposure to contaminated soil.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2022
As more big businesses started to come in and gentrify all of Broadway, seeing that happen, it was traumatizing honestly.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2021
Property developers should lure displaced Americans to gentrify the Rust Belt along the Great Lakes.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021
He has watched other parts of metropolitan Cincinnati, including the West End and Over-the-Rhine, gentrify in ways that displaced longtime Black residents.
From Slate • Sep. 26, 2021
No one really knows what to do with a neighborhood that cannot gentrify its way to glory.
From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2021
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
