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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
Noun
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Despite having few supplies, the siblings stayed alive in the jungle for 40 days before being found by Colombian soldiers.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
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That pull of the past becomes overwhelming in the Peruvian jungle, Paddington is able to trace his roots for the first time.Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 4 Nov. 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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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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Leaders don’t yet have a breakdown for where every one of the encampment’s 96 residents went.Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Chicago police officers cleared an anti-Israel encampment from the university's quad on May 16 after more than two weeks of protests led to the closure of all green spaces.Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 8 Nov. 2024
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“Shantytown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shantytown. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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