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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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Countless arrivals make their way to Lagos every day with little money, finding places to live in shantytowns and hastily built tenements, or, sometimes, on the street.—
Alexis Okeowo,
New Yorker,
10 Jan. 2026
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Their target was the Comando Vermelho (CV), or Red Command, a criminal organization that has ruled these hillside shantytowns for decades.—
Alessandra Freitas,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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But then Linda goes chasing a wild boar through the jungle while toting a bamboo spear, and impales it to death in a gleefully gratuitous scene of CGI gore.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
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Though the subtle pink and jungle print touches are a lovely addition.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Jan. 2026
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Despite the recent overheated rhetoric and both real and apparent rifts and shifts between the States and Europe, the routine fashion-weeks encampments of the makers and their clients from all walks of life exhibit a rock-solid stability.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Long Beach police have arrested four people in connection with a deadly double-shooting at a homeless encampment last August.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Now a community organizer and member of an anti-violence collective who works in the favela, Medeiros is no stranger to how the Red Command instills fear in its territories.—
Alessandra Freitas,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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So does the bass-heavy genre baile funk, which emerged out of the city’s favelas before going global in the early 2000s.—
Carolina Abbott Galvão,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Hooverville.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Hooverville. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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