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For favelas like Parque Arará, that can be a problem.
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Jill Langlois, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
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
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
Back then the Brazilian government was trying to entice families to leave overcrowded urban favelas and make their homes in the forest.
—Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
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Jill Langlois, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
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
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
Back then the Brazilian government was trying to entice families to leave overcrowded urban favelas and make their homes in the forest.
—Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for favela
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Courtesy of Akasha Song On another trip to the Hawaiian Islands, Akasha was showering in a waterfall, exhausted after hiking a 13-mile trail through a jungle valley on Kauai, when a young, naked woman with brown hair and dark green eyes emerged from the trees and handed him a tamarind.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
22 May 2025
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The theory was that rivers could serve as highways through rugged jungle terrain inaccessible by road.—
Margie Warrell,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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On a trip from Cape Town to Pretoria, a reporter grapples with the whiplash of traveling through South Africa’s two worlds, from majestic mountains to struggling shantytowns.—
Lee-Ann Olwage,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2025
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Younis: The Khan Younis refugee camp is a dense, gray, concrete shantytown, the black waters from sewers running in thin rivulets down the middle of alleys.—
Chris Hedges,
Harpers Magazine,
15 June 2024
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While now prohibited on most college campuses, encampments continue to pop up and some Jewish students still feel unsafe.—
Diane Gensler,
Baltimore Sun,
26 May 2025
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Not all of those belongings required storage because people may have removed them between a report of an encampment and the city’s arrival.—
Nicole Santa Cruz,
ProPublica,
23 May 2025
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“Favela.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/favela. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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