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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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Threatening Panama militarily could throw open the Darien Gap, the jungle crossing where hundreds of thousands of migrants make their way north from South America to the US.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN,
31 Jan. 2025
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The Atlantis Spa is a jungle oasis, filled with natural cenotes and mangroves, offering massages, facials, and temazcal ceremonies.—
Devorah Lev-Tov,
AFAR Media,
31 Jan. 2025
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David Goldenberg, the Midwest regional director for the Anti-Defamation League who works with students at Northwestern, said even though there’s not an encampment, those memories are still raw.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2025
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Protests and around-the-clock encampments concerning the war erupted at colleges and universities around the country.—
Kiara Alfonseca,
ABC News,
4 Feb. 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
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Rio is home to at least 800 favelas, historically low-income neighborhoods, which house more than 20% of the city’s population.—
Constance Malleret,
The Christian Science Monitor,
16 Dec. 2024
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“Hooverville.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Hooverville. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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