slum

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

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

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

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

His mother Margaret Nalunkuuma, a nurse, was the main breadwinner and raised him on the land she bought in the Kamwokya slum.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

This dress could’ve bought a kid in the slum sectors several months’ worth of food.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

Cooking with firewood or coal is unsafe in cramped rooms in slums.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 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 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

The girl had led them into the Chafu District, Lkossa’s slums, a rougher part of the city.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

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 have an incredibly high tolerance for dirty dressing rooms, you know what I mean? I like slumming it.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

To Bull, it was as if Varney were an exiled prince slumming it among the foot soldiers of the world.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy