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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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Some migrants said their passports and most of their cellphones were taken away before they were locked in the hotel, denied access to lawyers and told they would soon be sent to a makeshift camp near the Panamanian jungle.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
19 Feb. 2025
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Dorrigo’s involvement with the book launch stirs up vivid memories of his time in the Thai jungle, lobbying in vain with the Japanese command to improve conditions for the men, many of them suffering from dysentery, malnutrition and malaria.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
Noun
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For favelas like Parque Arará, that can be a problem.—
Jill Langlois,
NPR,
25 Jan. 2025
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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
Noun
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The public health advisor and DCR field staff assess the risk encampments pose to the public and the environment after receiving a report of the sites.—
Chris Van Buskirk,
Boston Herald,
15 Feb. 2025
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The original tented encampment has long since turned into a permanent neighborhood of cinderblock houses, with children running through the narrow, muddy streets beneath a tangle of electrical wires overhead.—
Jawad Rizkallah,
NPR,
10 Feb. 2025
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“Shantytown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shantytown. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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