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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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In the brightly billboarded carcass of a West Coast city, private security shields the corporate enclaves of a tech élite from the shantytowns of the economically superfluous.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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And one night, a bunch of the editors of The Dartmouth Review descended on the shantytown protests and, with sledgehammers, slammed them down.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Behind me, the drummers beat an ominous jungle soundtrack.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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Apocalypse stretched on for months in the Philippine jungle, the shark in Jaws didn’t work, and Lucas’s crew couldn’t stand him.—
Michael O’Donnell,
The Atlantic,
10 Feb. 2026
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Rodriguez said the city is often left flat-footed when encampments pop up on hillsides and property owners don’t help address the issue.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Outreach workers will give people living in encampments a week’s notice, then conduct daily outreach every day that week, attempting to get the homeless people into shelters or more permanent housing solutions, the mayor said.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 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 21 Feb. 2026.
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