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Recent Examples of favela
So does the bass-heavy genre baile funk, which emerged out of the city’s favelas before going global in the early 2000s.
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Carolina Abbott Galvão, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
Basic sanitation to benefit a wealthy area meant dumping sewage and waste in a poor favela.
—Constance Malleret, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2025
Shampoo grew up in Vila do Ipsep, a favela in Recife.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Children play with a ball in front of a mural depicting the Brazilian World Cup football team at the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro on November 23, 2022.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
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Carolina Abbott Galvão, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
Basic sanitation to benefit a wealthy area meant dumping sewage and waste in a poor favela.
—Constance Malleret, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2025
Shampoo grew up in Vila do Ipsep, a favela in Recife.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Children play with a ball in front of a mural depicting the Brazilian World Cup football team at the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro on November 23, 2022.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for favela
Noun
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The government cut down swaths of jungle and drove support columns down into the caves to build the tourist train.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
1 Mar. 2026
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And yet locating the synths on The Mirror can feel like combing through the jungle for the lost city of Zinj.—
Dean Van Nguyen,
Pitchfork,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
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In her previous role, Dalton worked to drive down street homelessness by increasing outreach to those living in tents and encampments outdoors.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
25 Feb. 2026
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There have been several campus changes since then, including a ban on using masks to shield identity while breaking campus policies — including overnight encampments without permits.—
Jaweed Kaleem,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Favela.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/favela. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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