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ghost town

noun as in deserted town

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It is like a ghost town with some 10,600 people who lived there still displaced.

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Tran has watched the neighborhood change from a bustling historic enclave where many Asian immigrants live and work, to what is starting to feel like “a ghost town.”

They gave up and made this city a ghost town of heat and poverty.

“It’s just a ghost town, and we have to keep all of them safe and figure out what’s going on.”

The raids rendered some L.A. neighborhoods ghost towns, with businesses shuttered and customers few and far between, as people stayed home out of fear of being targeted.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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