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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.
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Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Hooverville
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On a trip from Cape Town to Pretoria, a reporter grapples with the whiplash of traveling through South Africa’s two worlds, from majestic mountains to struggling shantytowns.—
Lee-Ann Olwage,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2025
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Younis: The Khan Younis refugee camp is a dense, gray, concrete shantytown, the black waters from sewers running in thin rivulets down the middle of alleys.—
Chris Hedges,
Harpers Magazine,
15 June 2024
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For a $10 ticket per rider, you are transported onto an indoor boat ride through an animatronic jungle.—
Cynthia J Drake,
Southern Living,
2 May 2025
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Without otters, urchin populations can explode, damaging the underwater jungles that provide food and shelter for countless creatures.—
Avery Schuyler Nunn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
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Four people living in the encampment including Bryant, along with two homelessness advocates, filed for a restraining order to stop the closure.—
Jenny Kane and Claire Rush,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2025
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The film features footage from Resurrection City, a temporary encampment set up on the National Mall in 1968 as part of the Poor People’s Campaign started by Martin Luther King Jr., where thousands lived for a period of weeks.—
Stephanie Rudig,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
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Some 17 million people in Brazil live in favelas—informal settlements in peripheral areas around large cities—according to the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).—
Angelica Mari,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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He's lived his entire life in this favela — a word that refers to a native Brazilian shrub — and has been gardening just as long.—
Jill Langlois,
NPR,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Hooverville.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Hooverville. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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