The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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He defines “concentrationary” to include all circumstances in which there’s a punitive concentration of people, including in ghettoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Exhibit A: Catch a Fire opener Concrete Jungle’s powerfully bleak reportage, allegedly written not about Kingston’s ghettoes, but Marley’s mid-60s stay in the US.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2020
Trick Baby,”, which centers on a biracial pimp whose light skin allows him to move through both black ghettoes and white high society, is an adroit exposé of race and class in America.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2015
Over the past decade, as gay people have become more accepted and gay ghettoes have begun to empty out, I’ve noticed that the extremely muscled gay aesthetic has begun to fade away, especially among twenty-somethings.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2012
I don’t know if you know it, but there’s a whole circuit of commercial gospel entertainers who have come out of these little churches in the city ghettoes or from down South.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
