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Recent Examples of tenement Ng writes of growing up among these bachelors, who spend their days drifting around the crowded tenements of Chinatown. Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025 Evidence of Mumbai’s colonial past can be found in the city’s chawls, rickety tenement flats stacked upon each other like depressing LEGO blocks. John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025 At the same time, the Lower East Side increasingly hosts a population of pricey restaurants, little boutiques, and buyers and renters younger than 40 whose great-grandparents might have lived in tenements on those same blocks. Frederick Peters, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025 The courtyard was essential, a way for mostly Jewish immigrants to replace the tenement’s narrow, stinking air shaft with a form of genuinely gracious living. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tenement
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Noun
  • Thirteen years after the nursing home shut down, a developer is proposing to demolish the vacant building and put up 160 apartments.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2025
  • Advertisement During a Hamas missile barrage, an elderly relative of mine would settle for sitting on the steps in the stairwell of his second-floor apartment in Bat Yam, a coastal suburb of Tel Aviv.
    Orly Halpern, Time, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • With an in-suite elevator, a private entrance, high ceilings and a foyer home to 100-year-old olive trees, this duplex four-bedroom penthouse is fit for royalty and celebrities, like Beyoncé and Jay-Z, who stayed here during the hotel’s grand opening.
    Natasha Amar, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • As of June 1, about 40 households had signed leases for apartments ranging in size from 613-square-foot one-bedrooms to 2,100-square-foot penthouses.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 21 June 2025

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“Tenement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenement. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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