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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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But the jungle is the least of the dangers awaiting her, and dark secrets about her own family await.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026
The country has such a diversity of ecosystems, from deserts to jungles and the environments affected by pollution in the story can all be found here.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of jungle

Noun

Police also failed to examine killings inside houses or the site where two men were killed outside the favela hours before the operation officially began.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
He was raised in Restinga, a favela on the outskirts of Porto Alegre, Brazil.

— Tushaar Kuthiala, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026

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But after Vucic conceded defeat Sunday evening, ecstatic young revelers filled the streets of Belgrade and ripped down the cordons around the encampment known as Caciland.

— JOVANA GEC, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
The ads are intended to promote the idea that Raman isn’t tough on homeless encampments, which Raman says misrepresents her position.

— Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

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