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Recent Examples of Hooverville
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.
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Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Hooverville
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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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When the government has demolished shantytowns, citizens have been relocated, but undocumented immigrants have not, UNICEF said.—
Julie Bourdin,
New York Times,
25 Dec. 2024
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The Inca dominated Peru’s Andes Mountains and jungles for centuries.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Jan. 2025
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For the people of the Alto Juruá, the fer-de-lance is a grim reality of the dangers of life in the jungle.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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Yogi Sahu, a nearby resident who had pleaded with the city to address the Chynoweth encampment, noted that two RVs and campers that were among the biggest nuisances merely moved around the corner to spots near Hayes Mansion and on Birch Grove Drive.—
Devan Patel,
The Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2025
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Attorneys from three firms representing residents who have separately sued Southern California Edison dismissed the notion that the encampment might have had anything to do with the fire’s start.—
Salvador Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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But in Rio's more than 1,000 low-income favelas, their high cost and heavy weight meant they weren't even considered a possibility.—
Jill Langlois,
NPR,
25 Jan. 2025
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Rio is home to at least 800 favelas, historically low-income neighborhoods, which house more than 20% of the city’s population.—
Constance Malleret,
The Christian Science Monitor,
16 Dec. 2024
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“Hooverville.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Hooverville. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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