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Recent Examples of favela
Poor Indigenous, Black, the people from the favelas, when the police go there and kill 120 people there, and the population basically claps and thinks that that’s great.
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Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2025
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
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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Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2025
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
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 old liberal institutions may be teetering, but that doesn’t mean that all that’s left is the law of the jungle.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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When a small plane crashed in the Colombian jungle, the only survivors were four children, who managed to stay alive for 40 days in the wilderness before being found.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
3 Apr. 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
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During this time, Paksa was volunteering with a Peronist unidad básica (grassroots unit) in a shantytown close to her home in the midsize city of Castelar, which coincided with a heightened focus on state violence in her work.—
Daniel R. Quiles,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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After deliberating for about a day and a half, an Orange County Superior Court jury found Adel Shaker Hijazi, 41, and Jacob Andrew Hernandez, 33, not guilty of misdemeanor charges of failure to disperse from a campus encampment on May 15, 2024.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
8 Apr. 2026
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The trial is expected to resume on Wednesday, and the Indigenous at the encampment, including Raoni, deployed to the court to protest in the afternoon.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Favela.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/favela. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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