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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
On a trip from Cape Town to Pretoria, a reporter grapples with the whiplash of traveling through South Africa’s two worlds, from majestic mountains to struggling shantytowns.
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Lee-Ann Olwage, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Younis: The Khan Younis refugee camp is a dense, gray, concrete shantytown, the black waters from sewers running in thin rivulets down the middle of alleys.
—Chris Hedges, Harpers Magazine, 15 June 2024
While surveying the demolished shantytowns, the top French official in Mayotte at first announced that hundreds, if not thousands, had likely perished.
—Julie Bourdin, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
For the kingdom, the bombings and the individuals that perpetrated them—native Moroccans from the city’s hardscrabble shantytowns—were a wake-up call.
—Ilan Berman, Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2016
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Lee-Ann Olwage, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
Younis: The Khan Younis refugee camp is a dense, gray, concrete shantytown, the black waters from sewers running in thin rivulets down the middle of alleys.
—Chris Hedges, Harpers Magazine, 15 June 2024
While surveying the demolished shantytowns, the top French official in Mayotte at first announced that hundreds, if not thousands, had likely perished.
—Julie Bourdin, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
For the kingdom, the bombings and the individuals that perpetrated them—native Moroccans from the city’s hardscrabble shantytowns—were a wake-up call.
—Ilan Berman, Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shantytown
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Off-camera, the character has a drug problem, which isn’t helped by fighting for his life in the Southeast Asian jungle.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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When people think of popular outdoor destinations in Asia, places like Thailand's beaches and jungles, Japan's Kumano Kodo, or Bhutan's rugged mountains may come to mind.—
Iona Brannon,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Aug. 2025
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Next up for Globo is School Without Walls, a film about a public school in one of Brazil’s biggest favelas directed by Cao Hamburger, that is a co-production of Brazil’s Gullane, Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes and France’s Playtime Group that is also backed by Telecine.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
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The film is both gritty and realistic, like the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, while also being a sweet story with surreal touches.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
15 June 2025
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As part of her apparent outreach, Bowser removed the Black Lives Matter mural near the White House and multiple homeless encampments in D.C., including one near the State Department.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Aug. 2025
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Hogsett on homelessness Mayor Joe Hogsett's administration just recently announced a policy shift in its response to homeless encampments: make sure everyone has access to housing before closing one.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
2 Aug. 2025
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“Shantytown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shantytown. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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