slum

Every morning, Shakuntala Devi and Shakiba Bibi - neighbours at a slum in India's capital Delhi - leave their homes, walking from one shop to another in search of a cooking gas cylinder.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 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

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

Hussain Ahmed, 20, whose family lives in Machhar Colony, one of Karachi's largest slum areas where most of the population is comprised of Bengalis, does not have Pakistani nationality or an identity card.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

I could tell that she was as surprised as I was to know that he was living in the slum building.

From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds

Residents are running guided tours through slums once controlled by gang leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 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 PA plan is not to recreate slums, but to make sure that tight-knit communities can be restored.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

Nailer had expected Nita’s prissy distaste for the slums of the Orleans to continue, but she adapted quickly, with a fierce attention to whatever Tool and Nailer taught.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

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

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

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

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024

On Tuesday there wasn’t that vaguely embarrassing feeling of an orchestra hall slumming it with pop.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 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