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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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Like most of the others, Rodríguez had never set foot in Mexico and had never heard of this city of a million people surrounded by dense jungle.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2026
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The characters, as shot by cinematographer Cedric Cheung-Lau, organically occupy these spaces, like the jungle or sea caves, which often feel otherworldly in their untainted beauty.—
Carlos Aguilar,
IndieWire,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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That's when people without permanent housing started living in a tent encampment in a downtown church parking lot.—
Emily Bollinger,
NPR,
25 Mar. 2026
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Students erected encampments at more than 100 schools.—
Rose Horowitch,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Favela.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/favela. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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