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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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Born in December 1963, the fifth of seven siblings, Lee grew up in Seongnam, a city near the southeastern edge of Seoul that, by the time his family settled there in 1976, was known as a neighborhood for those who had been evicted from the capital’s shantytowns.—
Max Kim,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2025
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At the same time, authorities in the Spanish capital are dismantling Toni’s neighborhood, a sort of makeshift shantytown no longer commonplace — or deemed right and proper — in wealthy western Europe.—
Adam Solomons,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
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This administration is bringing back the law of the jungle to international trade, according to trade expert Kristen Hopewell, and time is running out to salvage the remains of a post-war system of commerce that promoted stability and prosperity across the world.—
Christiaan Hetzner,
Fortune,
12 July 2025
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As the jungle closes in, the doctors find themselves in a brutal struggle for survival.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
11 July 2025
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Homeless advocates and experts say California’s unprecedented investments in homelessness programs likely prevented a larger spike, though that’s done little to assuage boiling public frustration over encampments statewide.—
Ethan Varian,
Mercury News,
11 July 2025
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Leftist lawmakers want to make homeless encampments a nationwide crisis.—
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FOXNews.com,
11 July 2025
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Next up for Globo is School Without Walls, a film about a public school in one of Brazil’s biggest favelas directed by Cao Hamburger, that is a co-production of Brazil’s Gullane, Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes and France’s Playtime Group that is also backed by Telecine.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
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The film is both gritty and realistic, like the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, while also being a sweet story with surreal touches.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
15 June 2025
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“Hooverville.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Hooverville. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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