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Recent Examples of favela
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.
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Jill Langlois, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
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
Back then the Brazilian government was trying to entice families to leave overcrowded urban favelas and make their homes in the forest.
—Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
Braga will play Valeria Melo, a professional driver with family connections to a gang that runs a favela in Brazil.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024
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Jill Langlois, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
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
Back then the Brazilian government was trying to entice families to leave overcrowded urban favelas and make their homes in the forest.
—Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
Braga will play Valeria Melo, a professional driver with family connections to a gang that runs a favela in Brazil.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for favela
Noun
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Health care workers didn’t want to live in the jungle.—
Mara Kardas-Nelson,
The Dial,
8 Apr. 2025
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The first Predator movie released in 1987 and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lead of a hardened military squad who come up against the Predator deep in the jungle.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
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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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Supporters of Galloway’s bill argued that the city’s enforcement of its ban has been lax, forcing residents and business owners near encampments to confront people experiencing mental illness, using drugs or making customers feel unsafe.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
8 Apr. 2025
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Among the most high profile arrests is green card holder Mahmoud Khalil, the lead negotiator of the pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University last spring who graduated in December.—
Lexi Lonas Cochran,
The Hill,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Favela.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/favela. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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