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shantytown

noun

Definition of shantytown

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 In the brightly billboarded carcass of a West Coast city, private security shields the corporate enclaves of a tech élite from the shantytowns of the economically superfluous. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026 Their target was the Comando Vermelho (CV), or Red Command, a criminal organization that has ruled these hillside shantytowns for decades. — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025 Farmers once proud of living and working their ancestral land were driven into poverty and forced into shantytowns. — Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025 These new shantytowns are plagued with substance abuse, violence and prostitution. — Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shantytown

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In a campaign known as Operation Wandering Soul, US forces played recordings of eerie sounds and voices where combatants were fighting in the jungle.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
Down in the nullah, the jungle was green and dense, but in the open area in front of me the trees had lost their leaves, and the only cover was dead, waist-high grass.

— Leslie E. Tassell, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2026

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The film will adapt one of the most powerful segments of the play, addressing the real case of Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira, a ten-year-old boy killed on April 2, 2015, in the Complexo do Alemão favela in Rio de Janeiro.

— Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
There's also the time he got lost in a favela in Brazil with a carful of German fans.

— Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026

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For The Times) How the case unfolded Kupsh’s case grew out of the protests that followed UCLA’s spring 2024 encampment — which some pro-Israel Jewish students alleged blocked them from part of the campus.

— Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026
In mid-August, state troopers returned to sweep an encampment once again under Operation SAFE.

— Jake Ramsey, Oklahoma Watch, 30 Aug. 2026

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