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barrio

noun

as in ghetto

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Recent Examples of barrio At the Jewish new year, a tour of a historic and humble barrio On a drizzly day last week, ahead of Sheinbaum's inauguration and the start of the Jewish new year, historian Vania Martínez began a tour of the barrio in front of the synagogue, Monte Sinaí, which opened in 1923. —

Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024 The 1995 telenovela starring Thalia and Fernando Colunga tells the story of a young, uneducated girl who lives with her godmother in the barrios of Mexico City and works in a landfill. —

Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024 These images introduced a way of life to people beyond the barrios. —

Rebecca Senf, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2024 Raised in Pedregal — the same low-income and working-class barrio in Medallo that my parents migrated from — historically known as violent and unsafe, Castro’s pride in making it out comes as no surprise. —

Ashley Garcia Lezcano, refinery29.com, 9 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for barrio

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Since then, more than 46,000 people have been killed in Gaza, according to Palestinian health officials, with much of the enclave laid to waste and gripped by a humanitarian crisis, with most of its population displaced.

— Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
Yet even lifelong residents were shocked at the speed and scale of the blazes that erupted on Tuesday, first in the tony coastal enclave of Pacific Palisades; then in Eaton Canyon, near Altadena; and to the north, around the area of Sylmar.

— Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2025