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Recent Examples of tenement Only in New York can a child raised in a tenement in Bushwick, who once worked as a squeegee boy and a mailroom clerk, rise to become mayor. Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025 Even as tragedy and struggle beset the tenement districts, the very qualities that defined the tenement’s unfavorable physical conditions—over-crowdedness and density—became building blocks for community. Annie Polland, Time, 25 Sep. 2025 What follows is one wild, sweltering summer day and night in their East Village tenement, as the two scheme with a crew of eccentric neighbors to cover up a dead body. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 22 Sep. 2025 Her novels always burst with a rich historical vibrancy, but The Gilded Heiress in particular brings to life the streets and tenements of the Gilded Age, as well as the burgeoning success of Broadway as industry. EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tenement
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Noun
  • During the last eight minutes of Wait Until Dark, theater owners dim the auditoriums' lights as Susy tries to escape her own apartment for ultimate effect.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
  • According to the Ocala Gazette, on the evening of June 2, 2023, Israel was playing in a field near Lorincz’s apartment while his older brother, 12-year-old Isaac, played basketball in the street.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The penthouse is currently available at just under $17 million with Lourdes Alatriste of Douglas Elliman.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The only reason the penthouse wasn't sold out was because [the developer] was looking for the right consumer.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Tenement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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