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favela

noun

Definition of favela

as in jungle

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Recent Examples of favela Brazilian police seized a record 48 tons of marijuana in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, uncovered by chance by a sniffer dog during a regular operation against criminal factions. — CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026 Official samba schools began forming in the 1930s, bringing the (previously criminalised) dance into the mainstream and celebrating an art form produced by Rio’s favela communities (Afro-Brazilian heritage is still at the heart). — Laura French, TheWeek, 18 Mar. 2026 Upper-class directors making films about very impoverished regions and communities—the classic themes, hunger and violence in the favelas. — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for favela

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Previous dinners explored the floating markets of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam’s islands, and its jungle regions.

— Karen Yuan, Vogue, 3 July 2026
There is no road to Chuao, and it is surrounded by thick jungle, so everything in the town has to be brought there by boat.

— Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 30 June 2026

Definition of jungle

Noun

Homeless encampments that serve as places for drug addicts to shoot up line several vacant and overgrown lots.

— Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026
Ormund is introduced in the third-season premiere issuing orders at his army’s encampment and then, with a put-upon air, closely sniffing his pomander as if offended by the whole dreary business.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 July 2026

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