ghettos

variants also ghettoes
plural of ghetto

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghettos
Noun
  • Come October, New Yorkers looking to escape the city for a long weekend trade the coastal enclaves of the Hamptons for the golden hiking trails and quaint little towns of Upstate New York—and nowhere is this mass exodus more visible than in the Catskills.
    Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The oldest date to the mid-19th century, while newer enclaves only cropped up in recent decades or, like Toronto’s, relocated from elsewhere in the post-World War II era.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The rollback of inside millage won't cause a loss of revenue to local taxing districts.
    Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2025
  • One provision of the program required districts to strategize to eliminate school lunch debt students had accumulated.
    Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Both of them wore their stocking caps pulled down beneath the hoods of their anoraks.
    Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In the first minutes, after the group of influencers, athletes, models, podcasters and actors are driven into the the desert in Morocco, their military manhandlers storm the bus and put black hoods over the heads, marching them into the unknown.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The initial, pre-construction assessment, published in 2019, surveyed 435 adults living in the neighborhoods impacted by the project, representing 1,629 household members of all ages.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • For over a decade, Donovan Taylor has been sharing his love for the 10 neighborhoods in Louisville’s West End by starting tours.
    Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The notes — about 30 rows of capital letters, numbers, dashes and parentheses broken into sections — baffled investigators.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The park encompasses 134 miles of that stretch and is divided into 13 distinct sections.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While the data during the peak of the Covid closures was even weaker, the increasing number of store closures and mounting cost pressures on tenants are likely to further dampen rent growth in the next several quarters, the report concluded.
    Kevin Williams, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • New England quarterback Drake Maye only had to throw nine times in the first two quarters, because the Panthers’ special teams unit essentially coughed up half of the Patriots’ field position in the matchup.
    Mike Kaye September 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Sep. 2025
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“Ghettos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghettos. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.

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