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a usually poor town or a part of a town where the people live in shanties
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Recent Examples of shantytown
Their target was the Comando Vermelho (CV), or Red Command, a criminal organization that has ruled these hillside shantytowns for decades.
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Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
Farmers once proud of living and working their ancestral land were driven into poverty and forced into shantytowns.
—Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
These new shantytowns are plagued with substance abuse, violence and prostitution.
—Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
In 2011, federal agents raided the shantytown and made dozens of arrests.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
Farmers once proud of living and working their ancestral land were driven into poverty and forced into shantytowns.
—Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
These new shantytowns are plagued with substance abuse, violence and prostitution.
—Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
In 2011, federal agents raided the shantytown and made dozens of arrests.
—Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shantytown
Noun
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Named for the Uto-Aztecan word for green, the property immerses guests in nature and local culture at every turn, appearing to all but dissolve into the emerald jungle and volcanic cliffs of the Sierra Madre.—
Todd Plummer,
Robb Report,
19 June 2026
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The new species was found in the jungles on Malaysia's part of Borneo, a large island known for its biodiverse rainforests.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
Noun
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There's also the time he got lost in a favela in Brazil with a carful of German fans.—
Wendy Grossman Kantor,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
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But soccer enthusiast Rafael Gomes says that the reality of life in the favela has sometimes caught up with them.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 June 2026
Noun
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Bowser tussled with Trump for much of 2025 over deploying the National Guard and briefly taking over the city's police department while cooperating with the White House on other matters such as clearing homeless encampments.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
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Caltrans reported removing more than 25,000 encampments on state right-of-ways and collecting approximately 450,000 cubic yards of litter and debris since 2021.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
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Our lead, Joe Rance (Callum Turner), trudges to campus from a Hooverville; later, the coach Al Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton), pokes around his crew’s lockers to count the holes in their shoes.—
Amy Nicholson,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2023
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“Shantytown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shantytown. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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