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shantytown

noun

Definition of shantytown

as in jungle

a usually poor town or a part of a town where the people live in shanties

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Recent Examples of shantytown 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 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 See All Example Sentences for shantytown

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Stepping into her own The jungle-goddess costume was the work of designers Kurt Swanson and Bart Mueller.

— Bianca Betancourt, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
Instead of being alone, celebrities will have to survive the jungle with a civilian friend or family member.

— Peter White, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of jungle

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The film will adapt one of the most powerful segments of the play, addressing the real case of Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira, a ten-year-old boy killed on April 2, 2015, in the Complexo do Alemão favela in Rio de Janeiro.

— Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
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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In Mina, the encampment outside Mecca where millions of pilgrims stay each year, buffet catering is provided, along with occasional surprises such as popcorn machines and ice cream.

— Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Of course there is a fire risk associated with sleeping rough, but most encampment fires start in dense neighborhoods like Skid Row.

— Maggie McGowan, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026

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