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Recent Examples of slumlord
The Blue Bloods and Sopranos vet will recur in Paramount+ With Showtime’s Dexter: Resurrection as Vinny, a greedy slumlord, our sister site Variety reports.
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Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 17 Mar. 2025
The show shares its title with a recent biopic starring Sebastian Stan that depicts the president as a slumlord, rising to real estate mogul status with the use of ruthless strategy, impressed on him by closeted gay lawyer Roy Cohn.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025
Victor finds work as a rent collector for a Jewish slumlord, Peter Feldman, the aforementioned Holocaust survivor.
—Zachary Lazar, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
For New Yorkers like my mother who call public housing home, Trump left them behind — like a slumlord abandoning his tenants.
—Ritchie Torres, New York Daily News, 21 May 2024
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Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 17 Mar. 2025
The show shares its title with a recent biopic starring Sebastian Stan that depicts the president as a slumlord, rising to real estate mogul status with the use of ruthless strategy, impressed on him by closeted gay lawyer Roy Cohn.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025
Victor finds work as a rent collector for a Jewish slumlord, Peter Feldman, the aforementioned Holocaust survivor.
—Zachary Lazar, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
For New Yorkers like my mother who call public housing home, Trump left them behind — like a slumlord abandoning his tenants.
—Ritchie Torres, New York Daily News, 21 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slumlord
Noun
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Newsweek covered a post detailing a young tenant's dispute with their landlord over a security-deposit deduction that went viral on Reddit.—
Thomas Westerholm,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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The Maryland Supreme Court opinion concluded that more analysis will be needed to decide if the landlord’s minimum-income rule disproportionately (and illegally) hurts voucher holders under the state’s Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act.—
Jeff Kauflin,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The letter placed at his door Friday admonished him for that vote and called on him to vote against cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and public education when Congress returns to Washington, D.C., in September.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Aug. 2025
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The letters were signed by HJC chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI), the latter of whom chairs the subcommittee on the administrative state, regulatory reform and antitrust.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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There are lessor productions that folded tents and walked away and this one didn't.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
26 July 2025
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As things work today, banks finance the aviation industry in two ways: through general purpose loans to airlines, lessors, and aerospace companies, and through dedicated loans that bankroll specific aircraft leases and purchases.—
Oliver Wyman,
Forbes,
5 Sep. 2024
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The program has helped tens of thousands of renters and landlords since its inception in 2020.—
Lizzie Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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That’s the dollars outstanding divided across all residents – owners, renters and their entire households.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
15 Aug. 2025
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Also, new changes to North Dakota regs allow landowners to post their property electronically, so pay attention to both physical and digital property boundaries.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
30 July 2025
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Some became vacation houses for wealthy landowners with big families, while others started a slow process of deterioration, Pereira explains.—
Aileen Weintraub,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 July 2025
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“Slumlord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slumlord. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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