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They mapped out public toilets in some of the poorest regions of the city, created bus routes databases and fought slum clearance policies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

From Delhi, she moved south to Chennai, where she pursued similar work on slum dwellers’ rights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Or that the public housing she championed would itself deteriorate so badly that, by 1990, the federal government would label much of it as “severely distressed”—and demolish it for having become a latter-day slum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Sometimes, classes are held in an open area in a slum with students seated on mats and carpets.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

You know—living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine.

From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose

Salvadoran military units must now navigate foreign slums where up to an estimated 15,000 armed Creole-speaking combatants operate along narrow corridors and mountain extraction routes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

When Karen Bass was first elected to the California state Assembly in 2004, Nithya Raman was halfway across the world, fresh out of college and working in the slums of Delhi, India.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

Authorities often attempt to hem in or demolish slums rather than extend electricity, paved roads or schools to them.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

It has made itself a home in the wild forest of our great cities, amid the rank and choking vegetation of slums!

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

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

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

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

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