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Recent Examples of favela
Braga will play Valeria Melo, a professional driver with family connections to a gang that runs a favela in Brazil.
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Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024
At the same time, the company noticed that the growth curve in e-commerce showed no signs of slowing—especially in largely untapped markets such as favelas, which generate over 119 billion reais ($20 billion) in economic activity every year, according to data from Instituto Locomotiva.
—Angelica Mari, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
For favelas like Parque Arará, that can be a problem.
—Jill Langlois, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
But in Rio's more than 1,000 low-income favelas, their high cost and heavy weight meant they weren't even considered a possibility.
—Jill Langlois, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
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Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024
At the same time, the company noticed that the growth curve in e-commerce showed no signs of slowing—especially in largely untapped markets such as favelas, which generate over 119 billion reais ($20 billion) in economic activity every year, according to data from Instituto Locomotiva.
—Angelica Mari, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
For favelas like Parque Arará, that can be a problem.
—Jill Langlois, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
But in Rio's more than 1,000 low-income favelas, their high cost and heavy weight meant they weren't even considered a possibility.
—Jill Langlois, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for favela
Noun
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Visitors can trek into the jungle to explore this enigmatic UNESCO World Heritage Site, stepping through ruins frozen in time.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
18 June 2025
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He's presumed alive after slipping into the jungle with the ransom money, choosing freedom over certain imprisonment.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Born in December 1963, the fifth of seven siblings, Lee grew up in Seongnam, a city near the southeastern edge of Seoul that, by the time his family settled there in 1976, was known as a neighborhood for those who had been evicted from the capital’s shantytowns.—
Max Kim,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2025
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At the same time, authorities in the Spanish capital are dismantling Toni’s neighborhood, a sort of makeshift shantytown no longer commonplace — or deemed right and proper — in wealthy western Europe.—
Adam Solomons,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
Noun
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Officers tracked Gomez to a nearby homeless encampment, where he was allegedly involved in a second violent altercation, according to police.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
18 June 2025
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The encampment at the Hyde Park school lasted eight days before being raided by campus police.—
Ikram Mohamed,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
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“Favela.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/favela. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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