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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 special menu was carefully tailored to complement each chapter of the 20-minute VR reel, featuring backdrops set in a jungle, under the sea, in outer space, and beyond.—
Kristin Tablang,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Rahman became separated from his group while hiking in the jungle on Sunday, Feb. 23, the Associated Press, La Perla del Sur and radio station WXEW previously reported.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
People.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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Five or six hundred people lived in the Chinese encampment.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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The most shocking aspect to Pennington was the sense of community within the homeless encampment.—
Janelle Ash,
Fox News,
26 Feb. 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 13 Mar. 2025.
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