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Recent Examples of favela
Rio is home to at least 800 favelas, historically low-income neighborhoods, which house more than 20% of the city’s population.
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Constance Malleret, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2024
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
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
In 2016, more than 70,000 were displaced from Rio de Janeiro’s favelas to make way for the event.
—Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
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Constance Malleret, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2024
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
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
In 2016, more than 70,000 were displaced from Rio de Janeiro’s favelas to make way for the event.
—Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for favela
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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While surveying the demolished shantytowns, the top French official in Mayotte at first announced that hundreds, if not thousands, had likely perished.—
Julie Bourdin,
New York Times,
25 Dec. 2024
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For the kingdom, the bombings and the individuals that perpetrated them—native Moroccans from the city’s hardscrabble shantytowns—were a wake-up call.—
Ilan Berman,
Foreign Affairs,
12 May 2016
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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“Favela.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/favela. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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