as in jungle
a usually poor town or a part of a town where the people live in shanties
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Recent Examples of shantytown
When the government has demolished shantytowns, citizens have been relocated, but undocumented immigrants have not, UNICEF said.
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Julie Bourdin, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Rescue workers have been searching for survivors amid the debris of shantytowns bowled over by 200 kph (124 mph) winds.
—Reuters, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
The city will finally lose that shantytown look of rotting shacks.
—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
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Julie Bourdin, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Rescue workers have been searching for survivors amid the debris of shantytowns bowled over by 200 kph (124 mph) winds.
—Reuters, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
The city will finally lose that shantytown look of rotting shacks.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shantytown
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Courtesy of Akasha Song On another trip to the Hawaiian Islands, Akasha was showering in a waterfall, exhausted after hiking a 13-mile trail through a jungle valley on Kauai, when a young, naked woman with brown hair and dark green eyes emerged from the trees and handed him a tamarind.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
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The theory was that rivers could serve as highways through rugged jungle terrain inaccessible by road.—
Margie Warrell,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Some 17 million people in Brazil live in favelas—informal settlements in peripheral areas around large cities—according to the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).—
Angelica Mari,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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He's lived his entire life in this favela — a word that refers to a native Brazilian shrub — and has been gardening just as long.—
Jill Langlois,
NPR,
25 Jan. 2025
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While now prohibited on most college campuses, encampments continue to pop up and some Jewish students still feel unsafe.—
Diane Gensler,
Baltimore Sun,
26 May 2025
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Not all of those belongings required storage because people may have removed them between a report of an encampment and the city’s arrival.—
Nicole Santa Cruz,
ProPublica,
23 May 2025
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“Shantytown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shantytown. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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