tenement
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Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor came from little in a material sense, he from tiny Pin Point, Ga., she from a Bronx tenement and later a housing project.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
I had lived in a tenement building in New York’s Chinatown.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
“We lived a teeny tenement apartment on 29th and 2nd Avenue above the Wonderland Blues Bar,” Brooks says.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025
He was born Walter Menzies Campbell on 22 May 1941 and was brought up in a Glasgow tenement.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025
And above me, on the back landing of the tenement house next door, I saw a half dozen boys begin to shout.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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