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favelas

noun

plural of favela
as in shantytowns

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  1. shantytowns
  2. jungles
Noun
  • 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
  • Their target was the Comando Vermelho (CV), or Red Command, a criminal organization that has ruled these hillside shantytowns for decades.
    — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
Definition of shantytowns
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  • After so many years in the DC universe, Zack Snyder comes back down to earth again with a violent but surprisingly human action thriller set in the jungles of an unidentified Latin American country.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2026
  • Estrada had landed a pacu, a fish that affluent anglers travel thousands of miles to target in the jungles of South America.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of jungles
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“Favelas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/favelas. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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