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Hooverville

noun

Definition of Hooverville

as in shantytown

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Recent Examples of Hooverville 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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Noun

Deep Cut, the ragtag band from previous Splatoon titles, has cobbled together a shantytown at sea, which serves as homebase.

— Mitch Wallace, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
As the family moved through the shantytown’s narrow streets, gunfire erupted.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026

Definition of shantytown

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To capture how Africa’s varied ecosystems shape the animals that live within them, film crews were sent to deserts, forests, jungles, mountains and islands.

— Addie Morfoot, Variety, 27 Sep. 2026
The challenges that the rest of the contestants will face as the season continues include a supply load retrieval while suspended 300 feet above the jungle floor, chemical gassing and a claustrophobic, high-pressure search of an underground bunker.

— Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026

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At Olympic and South Lake, where encampments line the street and a fire once spread into a church parking lot, destroying vehicles, there’s a concrete triangle that was heaped with trash.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
In the time since the encampment organizers folded up their tents, the fight has moved from the quad to the classroom, from a protest anyone could see to a comment in a lecture or a line in a syllabus.

— Jonathan Greenblatt, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of encampment

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He was raised in Restinga, a favela on the outskirts of Porto Alegre, Brazil.

— Tushaar Kuthiala, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
The film will adapt one of the most powerful segments of the play, addressing the real case of Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira, a ten-year-old boy killed on April 2, 2015, in the Complexo do Alemão favela in Rio de Janeiro.

— Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026

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