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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bulldozers moved in to knock down the shantytown .
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He searched for the uncle as well, scouring often through the shantytown near Cholon; but he never found him either.
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How many shantytowns of the Third World would not cherish one of those suburban bungalows you so despise?
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People were crammed into old, dilapidated buildings or flimsy shantytowns or crudely built new housing.
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Well into the 1900s there were black shantytowns outside of Leavenworth, Atchison, and Kansas City.