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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
Noun
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As the family moved through the shantytown’s narrow streets, gunfire erupted.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
20 May 2026
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Late one night in Payatas, a shantytown near a garbage dump in Manila’s outskirts, Santiago knocked on the door of a funeral office.—
Sheila Coronel,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In the documentary Amazomania, which just screened at the DC/DOX festival in the nation’s capital, vintage footage shows a Swedish filmmaker and journalist in what appears to be a jungle setting, tying on his worn boots.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
13 June 2026
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That question compares you only to people navigating the same jungle you're already lost in.—
Keith Ferrazzi,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Bowser tussled with Trump for much of 2025 over deploying the National Guard and briefly taking over the city's police department while cooperating with the White House on other matters such as clearing homeless encampments.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
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Caltrans reported removing more than 25,000 encampments on state right-of-ways and collecting approximately 450,000 cubic yards of litter and debris since 2021.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
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There's also the time he got lost in a favela in Brazil with a carful of German fans.—
Wendy Grossman Kantor,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
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But soccer enthusiast Rafael Gomes says that the reality of life in the favela has sometimes caught up with them.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 June 2026
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“Hooverville.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Hooverville. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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