was gentrifying

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of gentrify.
  gentrify

  verb (used with object)

  to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.

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was gentrifying

“In the late ’70s, as San Francisco was gentrifying, the one supply of housing for low-income people was single-room-occupancy hotels,” he said in an interview.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2021

Rebecca O’Neal telling us about how Prozac was gentrifying her brain.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2019

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