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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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Deep in the humid greenery of a Sumatran rainforest, serenaded by birdsong and the jungle’s endless thrum, a baby orangutan clings to its mother.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
Half of the team will traverse the jungle on foot and the other half of the team will sail around the island in their ongoing search.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of jungle

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He was raised in Restinga, a favela on the outskirts of Porto Alegre, Brazil.

— Tushaar Kuthiala, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
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

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And on homeless encampments, her team said a mayor lacks the legal authority to block council members from creating new no-camping zones.

— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
The women playing their wives inventoried the encampment and supervised a flock of children on scooters and bikes.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

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