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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
The city will finally lose that shantytown look of rotting shacks.
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2024
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
In 2005, Mugabe targeted the mass of disaffected Zimbabweans living in slums and shantytowns on the fringes of urban centers, strongholds of the MDC.
—Martin Meredith, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
Alessandro Da Fonseca was an amiable guy in his twenties who’d recently emigrated from a shantytown district of Rio de Janeiro.
—Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2024
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
In 2005, Mugabe targeted the mass of disaffected Zimbabweans living in slums and shantytowns on the fringes of urban centers, strongholds of the MDC.
—Martin Meredith, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2018
Alessandro Da Fonseca was an amiable guy in his twenties who’d recently emigrated from a shantytown district of Rio de Janeiro.
—Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shantytown
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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At the same time, the company noticed that the growth curve in e-commerce showed no signs of slowing—especially in largely untapped markets such as favelas, which generate over 119 billion reais ($20 billion) in economic activity every year, according to data from Instituto Locomotiva.—
Angelica Mari,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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But the mass of the population remained trapped in rural penury or urban favelas, while the fortunate few soared over the country’s ungovernable megacities in private helicopters.—
Jonathan Tepperman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Dec. 2015
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That includes clearing homeless encampments and removing graffiti on federal land, as well as restoring federal buildings, monuments, memorials, parks, and roadways.—
Anna Spiegel,
Axios,
28 Mar. 2025
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How does that cost compare to fighting a fire from the encampments?—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Shantytown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shantytown. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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