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Recent Examples of Hooverville
Our lead, Joe Rance (Callum Turner), trudges to campus from a Hooverville; later, the coach Al Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton), pokes around his crew’s lockers to count the holes in their shoes.
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Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Amy Nicholson, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Hooverville
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While surveying the demolished shantytowns, the top French official in Mayotte at first announced that hundreds, if not thousands, had likely perished.—
Julie Bourdin,
New York Times,
25 Dec. 2024
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For the kingdom, the bombings and the individuals that perpetrated them—native Moroccans from the city’s hardscrabble shantytowns—were a wake-up call.—
Ilan Berman,
Foreign Affairs,
12 May 2016
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The text came from inside a Panamanian government outpost, set hours away from the country’s capital, on the edge of the Darien jungle.—
Lomi Kriel,
ProPublica,
12 Mar. 2025
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The number of migrants trying to reach the U.S. by trekking through the Darién Gap jungle into Central America plunged 99% last month from February 2024, Bloomberg reported Monday.—
Axios,
Axios,
11 Mar. 2025
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In a priority to reduce homelessness, Best said the city created a new position to address the issue, and 120 encampments had been cleared from the San Diego River corridor.—
Gary Warth,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Mar. 2025
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Authorities claimed Amiri released his dog in August 2020 on a man who appeared to be sleeping in a homeless encampment tent.—
Nate Gartrell,
The Mercury News,
15 Mar. 2025
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At the same time, the company noticed that the growth curve in e-commerce showed no signs of slowing—especially in largely untapped markets such as favelas, which generate over 119 billion reais ($20 billion) in economic activity every year, according to data from Instituto Locomotiva.—
Angelica Mari,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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But the mass of the population remained trapped in rural penury or urban favelas, while the fortunate few soared over the country’s ungovernable megacities in private helicopters.—
Jonathan Tepperman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Dec. 2015
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“Hooverville.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Hooverville. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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