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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
Elsewhere in the wasteland, Knight Titus and Squire Maximus are on a Vertibird en route to the shantytown of Filly.
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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
The demonstration lasted six weeks, with some participants setting up a shantytown known as Resurrection City.
—The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2024
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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
The demonstration lasted six weeks, with some participants setting up a shantytown known as Resurrection City.
—The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shantytown
Noun
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The Inca dominated Peru’s Andes Mountains and jungles for centuries.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Jan. 2025
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For the people of the Alto Juruá, the fer-de-lance is a grim reality of the dangers of life in the jungle.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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But in Rio's more than 1,000 low-income favelas, their high cost and heavy weight meant they weren't even considered a possibility.—
Jill Langlois,
NPR,
25 Jan. 2025
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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
Noun
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Yogi Sahu, a nearby resident who had pleaded with the city to address the Chynoweth encampment, noted that two RVs and campers that were among the biggest nuisances merely moved around the corner to spots near Hayes Mansion and on Birch Grove Drive.—
Devan Patel,
The Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2025
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Attorneys from three firms representing residents who have separately sued Southern California Edison dismissed the notion that the encampment might have had anything to do with the fire’s start.—
Salvador Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Shantytown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shantytown. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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