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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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These new shantytowns are plagued with substance abuse, violence and prostitution.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Aug. 2025
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In 2011, federal agents raided the shantytown and made dozens of arrests.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Moises broke his foot in the Costa Rican jungle.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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The proverbial kings of the jungle once sprawled out as a pride, a rare occurrence in captivity, garnering millions of fans, but now their enclosure will sit empty — at least for now.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Gaza City residents said the military had destroyed homes and tent encampments that had housed Palestinians displaced by nearly two years of war.—
Nidal al-Mughrabi,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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The White House added that five missing children had been found and 50 homeless encampments had been removed, with as many as 3,200 federal employees deployed across 22 agencies.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This début novel is a chronicle of Rocinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, and follows the efforts of a group of male friends to score drugs, make a few dollars, and inch toward a better life.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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Next up for Globo is School Without Walls, a film about a public school in one of Brazil’s biggest favelas directed by Cao Hamburger, that is a co-production of Brazil’s Gullane, Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes and France’s Playtime Group that is also backed by Telecine.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
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“Hooverville.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Hooverville. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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