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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 demonstration lasted six weeks, with some participants setting up a shantytown known as Resurrection City.
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The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2024
This little rough and ready shantytown takes design cues from a handful of the major settlements in the 3-D Fallout games, most notably Fallout 3’s Megaton, though there’s a touch of Fallout 4’s Diamond City, too.
—Jack King, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
Hundreds of thousands of rural Iranians, displaced by land reform, swelled the country’s cities, many of them settling in slums and shantytowns.
—Laura Secor, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
In the 1920s, city elders demolished the shantytown remnants that greeted tourists and Cornell University students arriving by train.
—Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 19 May 2024
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The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2024
This little rough and ready shantytown takes design cues from a handful of the major settlements in the 3-D Fallout games, most notably Fallout 3’s Megaton, though there’s a touch of Fallout 4’s Diamond City, too.
—Jack King, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
Hundreds of thousands of rural Iranians, displaced by land reform, swelled the country’s cities, many of them settling in slums and shantytowns.
—Laura Secor, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
In the 1920s, city elders demolished the shantytown remnants that greeted tourists and Cornell University students arriving by train.
—Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 19 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shantytown
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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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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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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
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Lurie was able to tap into voter disillusionment over brazen retail theft, crime, open-air drug dens, and homeless encampments that made residents fearful and businesses flee.Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Dec. 2024
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Yes, but: Valley cities that have taken steps to crack down on homeless encampments have largely done so as a result of the Grants Pass decision, not Proposition 312.Jeremy Duda, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Shantytown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shantytown. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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