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a usually poor town or a part of a town where the people live in shanties
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Recent Examples of shantytown
Their target was the Comando Vermelho (CV), or Red Command, a criminal organization that has ruled these hillside shantytowns for decades.
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Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
Farmers once proud of living and working their ancestral land were driven into poverty and forced into shantytowns.
—Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
These new shantytowns are plagued with substance abuse, violence and prostitution.
—Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
In 2011, federal agents raided the shantytown and made dozens of arrests.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
Farmers once proud of living and working their ancestral land were driven into poverty and forced into shantytowns.
—Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
These new shantytowns are plagued with substance abuse, violence and prostitution.
—Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
In 2011, federal agents raided the shantytown and made dozens of arrests.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shantytown
Noun
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The runway show featured fashions in backdrops featuring an Italian city square, a French estate, a wild jungle and the surface of the moon.—
Alexandra Phelps,
Miami Herald,
23 May 2026
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The new iteration of the tiny club has a jungle-meets-the-shires feel with palm trees, vines and dangling wisteria and serves electric bright cocktails like frozen hibiscus margaritas.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
23 May 2026
Noun
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Born in a Rio de Janeiro favela, few soccer players symbolize better the rags to riches from pitches underdog story.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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The group had gathered before sunrise at Morro Dois Irmãos, a scenic overlook above Ipanema Beach, when authorities launched a raid in the Vidigal favela below, according to the BBC.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
22 Apr. 2026
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The city has converted several former hotels into shelters and added a handful of tiny home microcommunities to move people indoors from encampments.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
20 May 2026
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That's nearly a thousand fewer people living in encampments or vehicles.—
John Ramos,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
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Our lead, Joe Rance (Callum Turner), trudges to campus from a Hooverville; later, the coach Al Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton), pokes around his crew’s lockers to count the holes in their shoes.—
Amy Nicholson,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2023
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“Shantytown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shantytown. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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