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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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The special menu was carefully tailored to complement each chapter of the 20-minute VR reel, featuring backdrops set in a jungle, under the sea, in outer space, and beyond.—
Kristin Tablang,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Rahman became separated from his group while hiking in the jungle on Sunday, Feb. 23, the Associated Press, La Perla del Sur and radio station WXEW previously reported.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
People.com,
27 Feb. 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
Noun
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Five or six hundred people lived in the Chinese encampment.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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The most shocking aspect to Pennington was the sense of community within the homeless encampment.—
Janelle Ash,
Fox News,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Shantytown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shantytown. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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