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rundown

noun as in summary

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There, on the edge of a rundown strip center, the city is leasing space where a previous grocer went out of business.

Some stores are still pretty rundown, and Goodwill’s biggest real-estate challenge is the rising cost of construction and slow approval process for new stores.

Ginsberg lives on the Lower East Side in what Hujar calls “the most rundown tenement,” not far from a cluster of the burned-out buildings that marked New York’s gritty ’70s.

Everywhere we went, it was the same story - the shops were on rundown High Streets in some of the UK's most deprived areas, such as Blackpool, Bradford, Huddersfield and Hull.

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The series follows a 4-year-old who moves into a rundown apartment complex alone — for reasons that are eventually revealed as his neighbors get to know him.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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