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Recent Examples of favela
From my balcony, the golden sands of Copacabana, sounds of samba, and neighboring favelas seemed so close and far all at once.
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Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2024
In the slums of Mumbai, the favelas of Rio, and the townships of Johannesburg, such talk is a luxury.
—Richard Sennett, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2020
While Anitta and Ludmilla lead the way to global pop, baile funk continues to flourish mostly in underground favelas, covering a wide range of cities and regions, sprawling its infectious drumwork across the country.
—Felipe Maia, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2024
This led to the creation of organizations like Instituto Caldeira, launched in 2022, and the development of innovative territories, with entrepreneurship and innovation hubs set up in favelas across the state capital.
—Angelica Mari, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
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Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2024
In the slums of Mumbai, the favelas of Rio, and the townships of Johannesburg, such talk is a luxury.
—Richard Sennett, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2020
While Anitta and Ludmilla lead the way to global pop, baile funk continues to flourish mostly in underground favelas, covering a wide range of cities and regions, sprawling its infectious drumwork across the country.
—Felipe Maia, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2024
This led to the creation of organizations like Instituto Caldeira, launched in 2022, and the development of innovative territories, with entrepreneurship and innovation hubs set up in favelas across the state capital.
—Angelica Mari, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for favela
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Efforts to utilize French Guiana’s vast natural resources ended in disaster on multiple occasions, the jungle interior taking on a reputation perhaps only equaled by Joseph Conrad’s deeply colonial descriptions of the Congo Free State in Heart of Darkness almost a century later.Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
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California has a jungle primary system, meaning all candidates are listed under one ballot, regardless of party, for each office, and the top two finishers advance to the November general election.The Hill, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
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The city will finally lose that shantytown look of rotting shacks.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2024
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Elsewhere in the wasteland, Knight Titus and Squire Maximus are on a Vertibird en route to the shantytown of Filly.Jack King, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
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One woman in Lynnwood was killed when a large tree fell on a homeless encampment, while another woman in Bellevue was killed when a tree fell on a home.Greg McKenna, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2024
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Multiple campus groups have released findings about discrimination on campus, while the University of California system this month also published an external report that criticized UCLA’s handling of the encampment.Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Favela.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/favela. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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