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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
Farmers once proud of living and working their ancestral land were driven into poverty and forced into shantytowns.
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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
The demonstration lasted six weeks, with some participants setting up a shantytown known as Resurrection City.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 12 May 2025
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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
The demonstration lasted six weeks, with some participants setting up a shantytown known as Resurrection City.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shantytown
Noun
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Our culinary journey here included taking a zip line to dine at Flying Sauces, a treetop restaurant with sweeping views across the jungle and out to the coastline below.—
William Curtis,
Travel + Leisure,
6 May 2026
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Welcome to a Hump Day Nightcaps — the one where Cameron Brink plays in the jungle ahead of the WNBA regular season opener.—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
6 May 2026
Noun
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The group had gathered before sunrise at Morro Dois Irmãos, a scenic overlook above Ipanema Beach, when authorities launched a raid in the Vidigal favela below, according to the BBC.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
22 Apr. 2026
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Brazilian police seized a record 48 tons of marijuana in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, uncovered by chance by a sniffer dog during a regular operation against criminal factions.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The encampment had previously been on private property and moved to its most recent location after the owner performed a cleanup, Yee said.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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In the audit, colleges and universities saw fewer incidents compared with 2024, when ADL said the pro-Palestinian encampment movement drove spikes in incidents.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
6 May 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 13 May. 2026.
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